beheaded

past tense of behead
as in headed
to cut off the head of Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded for plotting against Queen Elizabeth

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Recent Examples of beheaded According to psychiatrist interviews conducted with his younger sister, Allyn, Kemper cut the hands off of her doll, beheaded and dismembered the family cat, and fantasized about executions and gas chambers. Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 France has returned three skulls to Madagascar more than a century after they were taken, including one believed to be that of a 19th-century Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops. Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025 Less than four months later, Anne Boleyn was beheaded. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 All of the workers who are playing the elves have either been killed in horrible ways or beheaded, and their heads are used as tree toppers, and their intestines are strung on the Christmas trees. Simon Thompson, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Papa Grant has his bladier searched, beaten and ultimately beheaded for the betrayal. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 8 Aug. 2025 For that, John the Baptist was ultimately beheaded. Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025 Holding an axe, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025 Red Path, which world premiered at Locarno, revolves around a shepherd boy who is traumatized when his teenager cousin is beheaded by Islamic State terrorists in front of him. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
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  • Three weeks into the occupation, the Bundys and Finicum headed to John Day, Oregon, to meet with Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Mark-Paul Gosselaar portrayed Peter Bash, the more grounded and level-headed half of the Franklin & Bash duo.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • That’s not the first time a team mascot has been decapitated.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps Clemson feared he'd get decapitated by Whit Weeks and Harold Perkins Jr.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Beheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beheaded. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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