guillotine
noun
a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
have guillotined
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present perfectof guillotine.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Northern beneficiaries of his Reconstruction ruthlessness have guillotined him with forgetfulness.
From Time Magazine Archive
These developments -- and the gleeful speed with which Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia have guillotined the Communist monopoly -- must make Mikhail Gorbachev feel like the sorcerer's apprentice.
From Time Magazine Archive
