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Guillotine (Verb)

Meaning

Kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country".

Classification

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Examples

  • The executioner carefully placed the rebel's head on the block, preparing to guillotine him for his crimes against the state.
  • During the Reign of Terror, thousands were guillotined for perceived disloyalty to the revolution.
  • French revolutionaries eagerly guillotined the aristocrats who had long repressed their social class.
  • In a shocking display of brutality, the tyrannical ruler ordered his opponents to be guillotined in the town square.
  • The ruthless dictator guillotined hundreds of dissidents who dared to challenge his authority.

Hypernyms

  • Behead
  • Decollate

Related Words

  • Guillotine (noun)
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