executor
- n a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will
excuse
- n a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
he kept finding excuses to stay - n a note explaining an absence
he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him - n a poor example
a poor excuse for an automobile - v accept an excuse for
Please excuse my dirty hands - v grant exemption or release to
Please excuse me from this class - v serve as a reason or cause or justification of
Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work - v defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- v ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- v excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
excuse someone's behavior
excuser
- n a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense
exec
- n the chief executive department of the United States government
execration
- n hate coupled with disgust
- n an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group
- n the object of cursing or detestation; that which is execrated
executing
- n putting a condemned person to death
- v kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
- v murder in a planned fashion
- v put in effect
- v carry out the legalities of
- v carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- v carry out or perform an action
- v sign in the presence of witnesses