Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
behead . - adjective To have had your
head cut off.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having had the head cut off
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Examples
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The President of Gambia has demanded that all gay people leave or they will be beheaded, which is minimally better than the proposed Ugandan law that would order a life sentence or death for those convicted of being homosexuals.
The Other African Genocide - How the American Right Taught Africa to Hate Gays by Example 2010
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The President of Gambia has demanded that all gay people leave or they will be beheaded, which is minimally better than the proposed Ugandan law that would order a life sentence or death for those convicted of being homosexuals.
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Here in the Conciergerie, she speaks with Riouffe, with Ex-Minister Claviere; calls the beheaded
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The President of Gambia has demanded that all gay people leave or they will be beheaded, which is minimally better than the proposed Ugandan law that would order a life sentence or death for those convicted of being homosexuals.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Ambroz 2010
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The President of Gambia has demanded that all gay people leave or they will be beheaded, which is minimally better than the proposed Ugandan law that would order a life sentence or death for those convicted of being homosexuals.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Ambroz 2010
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Now as I said ye Law Condemns all thus to be Executed, but if it be great persons they obtaine Leave of ye king they may be beheaded, which is done on a scaffold Erected on purpose in manner of a stage, and the persons brought in Coaches with Ministers do as the former; then when they have ended their prayers and speech they Lay down their head on a block and stretch out their bodies.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard -- who is running as the Democratic nominee to unseat the Republican governor in November -- didn't hold back in seizing upon the apparent "beheaded" bodies misstatement.
Jan Brewer's 'Beheaded' Bodies Claim Disputed By Local Law Enforcement Agencies 2010
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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard -- who is running as the Democratic nominee to unseat the Republican governor in November -- didn't hold back in seizing upon the apparent "beheaded" bodies misstatement.
Jan Brewer's 'Beheaded' Bodies Claim Disputed By Local Law Enforcement Agencies 2010
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John himself was not "beheaded," yet who doubts but that he shall share in the first resurrection?
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It practically mean that the organization was "beheaded" but only momentarily.
Counterterrorism Blog Walid Phares 2010
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