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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Charles II, son of the Charles I they had beheaded, was voluntarily replaced upon the English throne.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
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
Queen Mary was a prisoner at Lochleven Castle, and her brother Murray had beheaded many of her friends.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major
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
IN the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Moncure Daniel Conway
