be
head
Third Person
beheads
Present Participle
beheading
Past Tense
beheaded
Past Participle
beheaded
1
to cut off someone's head
transitive
- In medieval times, executioners would behead criminals in public squares.
- The guillotine was historically used to behead individuals during the French Revolution.
- The executioner skillfully beheaded the condemned prisoner with a swift stroke.
- The executioner carried out the sentence and beheaded the condemned traitor.
- The folklore tale told of a mythical creature that could behead its victims with a single bite.
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