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UK
/ɡˈɪlətˌiːn/
]
[ US /ˈɡijəˌtin, ˈɡɪɫəˌtin/ ]
[ US /ˈɡijəˌtin, ˈɡɪɫəˌtin/ ]
VERB
-
kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine
The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country
NOUN
- instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
- closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
How To Use guillotine In A Sentence
- Her wrists were bound together with rope, and so were her ankles, her neck open to the air and the world, and her entire body was in a guillotine, the blade lingering high above.
- Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
- Next to be hauled out of the tumbrel and up to the guillotine: Kendra Chantelle, Ashthon Jones, and Karen Rodriguez. 'American Idol' 2011: Lucky 13 [Updated w/ Poll]
- One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine.
- This last revolutionary had cheated the State by committing suicide while awaiting execution, but was not allowed to cheat the guillotine.
- Where the guillotine improved on the Halifax design was the inbuilt facility to position the victim accurately and quickly in the machine.
- Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
- Take, for instance, the following piece of purple prose, full of sentences just begging to hop into the tumbrel and ride to the guillotine. Author! Author! » 2010 » July
- Spitefully, Madame Defarge replies that she has indeed observed Lucie and makes a sinister gesture miming the guillotine.
- Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -- the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
