| VERB | contact | behead, decapitate, decollate | cut the head of |
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| Sounds | bihhheh'd; biyhheh'd | |
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| Rhymes | abed ... zed: 93 rhymes with ehd... | |
| Meaning | cut the head of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | They want to behead the prisoners | |
| Example | "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" | |
| Synonyms | decapitate, decollate | |
| Narrower | guillotine | kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | decapitar, descabezar | |
| Catalan | decapitar | |
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