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beheaded

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be·head  (b-hd)
tr.v. be·head·ed, be·head·ing, be·heads
To separate the head from; decapitate.
[Middle English biheden, from Old English behafdian : be-, away from; see be- + hafod, head; see head.]
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Adj.1.beheaded - having had the head cut off; "the beheaded prisoners"
decapitated
headless - not having a head or formed without a head ; "the headless horseman"; "brads are headless nails"


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The peeled white body of the beheaded whale flashes like a marble sepulchre; though changed in hue, it has not perceptibly lost anything in bulk.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
The King's argument was, that anything that had a head could be beheaded, and that you weren't to talk nonsense.
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When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine.
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