behead
verb (used with object)
to cut off the head of; kill or execute by decapitation.
had beheaded
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past perfectof behead.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She presently discovered that he was the champion who had beheaded three Turkish warriors, one after another, before the walls of the besieged city Regall.
From Days of the Discoverers by Florence Choate
England was governed by the Rump Parliament, after she had beheaded her king.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Parliament had seized the reins of government in 1642, had completely established its authority at Naseby in 1645, and had beheaded the king in front of his own palace in 1649.
From Palamon and Arcite by John Dryden
When Cromwell had beheaded King Charles I., there were some exciting times at St. James's Palace.
From The Children's Book of London by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
To the argument that the French had beheaded their king, he drily replied that the English had once done the same; and he decisively refused to allow the ships to be molested.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
