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BEHEAD

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut the head of

Example:

the French King was beheaded during the Revolution

Synonyms:

behead; decapitate; decollate

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "behead" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "behead"):

guillotine (kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to behead the prisoners

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