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[ UK /bɪhˈɛd/ ]
[ US /biˈhɛd, bɪˈhɛd/ ]
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  1. cut the head of
    the French King was beheaded during the Revolution

How To Use behead In A Sentence

  • A samurai warrior, before going into battle, would burn incense in his helmet so that if an enemy took his head he would at least offer his beheader a pleasant aroma. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • It should be stated further that in the case of "seppuku," as soon as the act of cutting the abdomen had been completed, always by a single rapid stroke, someone from behind would, with a single blow, behead the victim. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
  • Thomas Weir perched, like that of a man beheaded for treason, upon the apex of the gablet of the old tomb, as I was of hearing the wonderful playing of that husky old organ, of which I have spoken once before. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
  • He is, in fact, the only spectacled beheader present. The Holiday Round
  • The problem is that it was done in sich a god awful way that it makes this country's "friends" in Iraq look no better than a bunch of islamic terrorist isurgents about to behead another westerner live on video. Am I bovvered ?
  • Within three years he had tired of Anne Boleyn and she was beheaded in 1536, accused of treason and adultery.
  • I just upgraded my Acer AOD250 to beta2 and now Maximus is no longer beheading the title bars from app windows. Ubuntu Forums
  • King of France under the name of Charles X; Spifame (1548-58) who became a Calvinist in 1559, and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556; the polemist Sorbin de Ste-Foi The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • Now I understand your joy when you read of the beheadal of the man who took my father's place! Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Paul Kauvar; or, Anarchy
  • I read the treatise through, and was so smitten with the accurate view it exhibited of the theatres of these days, that I immediately determined to transport myself, as well as I could, to the golden times of the _beheader of Mary Queen of Scots_. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
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