Reverse Dictionary: EXECUTE

ADJECTIVES
► CARNIFICIAL belonging to an executioner, or to a butchery; butcherly → 1632
► CARNIFICINE of the executioner; butcherly → 1681 obs.

NOUNS
► BEHEADAL beheading, execution by decapitation → 1859
► CARNIFICINE the place of execution, the office of hangman → 1656 obs.
► COLOMBIAN NECKLACE a form of execution intended to set an example in which the victim’s throat is slit → 1995 US sl.
► COLOMBIAN NECKTIE a form of execution intended to set an example in which the victim’s throat is lit and the tongue pulled down through the gaping wound → 1997 US sl.
► CUPAR JUSTICE execution of a person before trial; summary justice, arbitrary punishment → 1681 chiefly Sc.
► FUSILLADE a simultaneous discharge of firearms; a wholesale execution by this means → 1801
► GANCH the apparatus employed in the execution of criminals by ganching (impaling); the punishment itself → 1625-6 obs.
► GAROTTING ► GARROTTING execution by means of the Spanish garrotte → 1890
► GAUNCH the apparatus employed in the execution of criminals by ganching (impaling); the punishment itself → 1625-6 obs.
► GREEN DOOR the door leading to an execution chamber → 1976 US sl.
► HEAD-HILL the hill of execution, the spot where criminals were beheaded → 1685 Sc. obs.
► NEEDLE a lethal injection, as used in legal executions → 1990s US prison sl.
► OUTING DUES execution for murder → 1896 criminals’ sl.
► SALT CREEK execution in the electric chair → 1910s US criminals’ sl.
► SUFFERING the act of suffering death; execution, martyrdom → 1651 obs.
► TOILET preparation for execution → 1885
► VERDUGOSHIP the personality of an executioner → 1610 obs.
► WALM killing, execution → c1205 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BASARE ► BASER an executioner → c1375 obs.
► BOURRIAU an executioner → Bk1911 Sc.
► BOURRIER ► BURRIOUR a hangman, an executioner → 1550 Sc. obs.
► BUTCHER an executioner; a person who inflicts capital punishment or torture → 1483 obs.
► CARNIFEX an executioner → 1561 obs.
► DEATHSMAN a man who puts another to death; an executioner → 1589 arch.
► HALSEMAN ► HALS-MAN an executioner → a1658 obs.
► HANGMAN a man whose office it is to hang condemned persons; also more generally, an executioner, a torturer, racker → 1393
► HEADER one who beheads; a headsman, an executioner → 1440 obs.
► HEADING-MAN an executioner; a headsman → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► HEADMAN a headsman, an executioner → 1631 obs.
► HEADSMAN one who beheads; an executioner → 1562
► JACK KETCH ► JACK KITCH a hangman or executioner → 1676 sl.
► MAN’S QUELLER an executioner → c1450 obs.
► MANQUELLER an executioner → c1300 obs.
► MANSLAYER an executioner → c1380 obs.
► NECK-CUTTER a headsman, an executioner → a1779 Sc. 
► OFFICER a jailer; an executioner → a1600 obs.
► SCOURGING-HYRE an executioner → 1861 Sc. obs.
► SMITER an executioner → 1390 obs.
► VERDUGO a hangman or executioner; also, a term of abuse → a1616 obs.

VERBS
► BAKE to execute in the electric chair → 1950s US prison sl.
► BURN to die by electrocution in the electric chair → Bk1990 Amer. criminal sl.
– to execute someone in the electric chair → Bk1990 Amer. criminal sl.
► CLIP to murder, to execute → US sl.
► GANCH to impale a person upon sharp hooks or stakes as a mode of execution → 1615 obs.
► GAROTTE ► GARROTTE to execute by means of the garrotte (the apparatus for inflicting Spanish method of capital punishment by strangulation) → 1851
► GAUNCH to impale a person upon sharp hooks or stakes as a mode of execution → 1615 obs.
► KISS THE MAID to be executed by the ‘maiden’ (a decapitating machine) → 17C colloq.
► NUKE to execute in the electric chair → 1992 US sl.
► TAKE OFF to execute → M19 US Black & criminals’ sl.
► TAKE THE ELECTRIC CURE to be executed in the electric chair → 1920s US prison & criminals’ sl.
► TOP to be executed for a capital crime → 1960 African-American sl.
► WHACK ► WHACK OUT to murder, esp. to execute; chiefly used among members of the criminal underworld, esp. the Mafia → 1973 US sl.