behead

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In Swat, for example, there are about 150 illegal FM radio stations, and Fazlullah is going around every night broadcasting the names of people they're going to behead or they've beheaded.

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  1. transitive verb To separate the head from; decapitate.

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  • In Swat, for example, there are about 150 illegal FM radio stations, and Fazlullah is going around every night broadcasting the names of people they're going to behead or they've beheaded. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Start your announcement using the word "behead" (see below for a solution one of our FutureNow guys came up with). —  FutureNow's GrokDotCom / Marketing Optimization Blog
  • The Abu Sayyaf terrorists led by Al Bader Parad are still holding Swiss Red Cross worker Andreas Notter and Italian Eugenio Vagni and have now threatened to behead them unless the government basically surrenders the entire island of Jolo to the band by withdrawing all police and military personnel into the capital city. —  Philippine Commentary
  • "I will do what I told you I will do," Gordon quoted Parad as telling him, referring to a threat made earlier in the week that the bandits would behead one of the hostages if troops did not pull back. —  Sun.Star Network Online - Your Source of Philippine Community News
  • John Solecki was taken captive Feb. 2 in the southwestern city of Quetta in Baluchistan by kidnappers who indicated they were separatists and threatened repeatedly to behead him.
 

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  1. Middle English biheden, from Old English behēafdian : be-, away from; see be- + hēafod, head; see head.

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  1. from Middle English beheden, bihefden, biheveden, from Anglo-Saxon beheáfdian (= Middle High German behoubeten; ef. G. ent-haupten = Dutch on-thoofden), behead, from be-, here privative, + heáfod, head: see bc- and head.
 

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