beheaded
part of speech
verb (behead, beheads, beheaded, beheading — this is the past form); adjective (beheaded)
meaning for a pupil
1) Killed by having the head cut off. tree →
2) Having had the head or top part removed, as with a flower or statue. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The murder of Ish-bosheth is told as a shameful deed. David punishes the killers, and tradition reads this as a lesson that evil done for gain is not rewarded. In the primary lessons: In history lessons, kings and queens were beheaded, such as Anne Boleyn and Charles I in England, and many people in the French Revolution by the guillotine. It is a serious and violent word; history tells it to show how harsh punishments were.
examples
- Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. (Prophets 2SA.4.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1536. tree →
- King Charles I was beheaded in London. tree →
- Many nobles were beheaded during the French Revolution. tree →
- The statue was beheaded by vandals. tree →
- The rhyme says: divorced, beheaded, died. tree →
- In the past, beheading was used as a punishment. tree →
- Therefore she was easily captured, and the next day was beheaded in the market-place. tree →
note
This is the past form of «behead». Henry VIII's wives rhyme: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. A grim history word.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «beheaded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.