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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
behead .
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Examples
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Deborah rallies the Israelite army (Jgs 4: 4-16), Jael smashes the head of an enemy general (Jgs 4: 17-22), Judith beheads Holofernes (Jdt 13), and Esther maneuvers Haman onto the gallows (Est 7), in each case saving their people from certain destruction.
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"You mock me as a capricious fool, who beheads anyone on the slightest whim," the sultan rebuked.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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The Register: Steve Jobs beheads iPad apps for acting like desktops
2010 June 2010
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Or at least it is until they finally get around to filming a movie about a guy that beheads people with a garden trowel.
Top 10 Instruments of Death in Slasher Films » Scene-Stealers 2009
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The Register: Steve Jobs beheads iPad apps for acting like desktops
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"What the hell kind of baby does that?" shrieks a mom after her possibly demonic spawn cheerfully beheads a bevy of Barbie dolls.
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Bill stakes Nan Flanagan (who's gone rebel as part of a vampire insurrection) and is covered in her gore, while Eric beheads her "gay storm troopers," all because Nan called them "(bleep)ing puppy dogs" for Sookie!
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The biblical Judith beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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On the seventeenth floor, inside the Croatian Tourist Board office, he beheads three undead Croatian tourists.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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The biblical Judith beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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