behead
verb (used with object)
to cut off the head of; kill or execute by decapitation.
beheads
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present tense formof behead (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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There you will stand for eight hours, clad in ill-fitting rubber boots and a hooded plastic onesie, while she guts and beheads an endless stream of salmon floating by on a metal belt.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2021
It would be like reducing the whole of Macbeth to the final scene where Macduff beheads the King, and therefore revealing nothing about his motivation or history.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2019
So he goes to the fish market to prod clams, watches in awe as a bar owner beheads a bottle with a sword, then throws together four different risottos, all beautiful.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2010
The poison deranges first the latest and highest products of evolution; it beheads a man, as we may say, in thin slices from above downwards.
From Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby
The whiplash of the tempest cracked the tree trunks as a child beheads a row of daisies.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
