guillotine

as in to head
to cut off the head of French Revolutionary forces captured and guillotined countless aristocrats in the chaotic period following the downfall of the monarchy

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    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The team that started 2-4 in Big 12 play has now won 11 of 12 games and is one of the hottest teams in college basketball heading into a third-round matchup in Newark, N.J., with the winner of Alabama-Saint Mary’s.
    Sam Blum, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
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  • Six weeks later, on July 28, Cromwell was beheaded on Tower Hill.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Jane, who may have been as young as 16, is shown blindfolded as an executioner with an axe waits to behead her.
    Pan Pylas, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2025
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  • Her only ally is a mystical axe whose victims wind up as decapitated, talking heads.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Later that day, a park staff member discovered someone had decapitated the deceased sea lion, NOAA wrote in a news release posted Tuesday.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Guillotine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guillotine. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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