execution vs elimination

elimination vs execution

execution and elimination both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
execution	Yes	No	No	No
elimination	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, elimination is a hyponym of execution; that is, elimination is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than execution:

execution: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
elimination: the murder of a competitor

Other hyponyms of execution include assassination, bloodshed, gore, contract killing, parricide, mariticide, fratricide, uxoricide, filicide, liquidation, butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, lynching, regicide, dry-gulching, hit, infanticide, shoot-down, tyrannicide, thuggee.

execution (noun)	elimination (noun)
putting a condemned person to death	the murder of a competitor
unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being	the act of removing or getting rid of something
the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it	the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order	analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out	the bodily process of discharging waste matter
(law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

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