beheaded

«beheaded» in Mova's school dictionary: Killed by having the head cut off — 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 — 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

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

• 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

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

Trees and pragmatics

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