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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#m1)

2) Having had the head or top part removed, as with a flower or statue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x1)
- King Charles I was beheaded in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x2)
- Many nobles were beheaded during the French Revolution. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x3)
- The statue was beheaded by vandals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x4)
- The rhyme says: divorced, beheaded, died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x5)
- In the past, beheading was used as a punishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x6)
- Therefore she was easily captured, and the next day was beheaded in the market-place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beheaded» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.