behead

«behead» in Mova's school dictionary: To cut off a person's head as a punishment or execution — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (behead, beheads, beheaded, beheading)

meaning for a pupil

To cut off a person's head as a punishment or execution. tree →

sense in the lessons

History: Anne Boleyn and Charles I were beheaded; in the French Revolution the guillotine was used. In Alice in Wonderland the Queen of Hearts keeps shouting «Off with his head!», but the King quietly pardons everyone and no one is really beheaded. There is a funny argument about whether you can behead the Cheshire Cat, who has only a head.

examples

• Charles I was beheaded in 1649. tree →
• «Off with her head!» shouted the Queen. tree →
• The executioner said you can't behead a head with no body. tree →
• In history we learned that Anne Boleyn was beheaded. tree →
• Nobody was really beheaded in Wonderland. tree →
• The guillotine was used to behead people in France. tree →
• Go and behead him at once. tree →

note

Regular verb. Noun: beheading. Be- + head (to take off the head). Today almost all countries have stopped this punishment.

In the corpora

• The King's argument: anything that has a head can be beheaded.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «behead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.