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.