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.
will guillotine
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future tenseof guillotine.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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"I am afraid they will guillotine thee, my beautiful actor, before I have laughed all the brass buttons off my coat at the play."
From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by William Sage
