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 His unprecedented February arrest was the first of a royal since 1649, when King Charles I was beheaded for high treason. Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026 Compared to Louis’ time beheaded, Lestat’s is as breezy as his dream of the forest. Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 When the decision on trans athletes was made the other day by the Supreme Court were the Justices swarmed by an angry mob and beheaded on the spot? Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026 That marble sculpture of George III, vandalized in 1775, was now beheaded altogether, to the cheers of soldiers. Sarah M.s. Pearsall, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 In one montage played for laughs, an emperor is squashed by a panda and a king is beheaded, although there is no blood or guts to speak of. Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 1 July 2026 After largely remaining absent from season 2, Rhys Ifans returns as Alicent's father, who's then promptly beheaded before witnesses in the court. Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026 Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents. Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026 His mother, who came from a somewhat shady family (her father had been part of a coin-forging group whose ringleaders were arrested and beheaded), helped run the inn; his sister was twelve years older. Clare Bucknell, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
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  • Like many performers who depart WWE/TNA, there are rumors she is headed to AEW.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • There’s also inward-looking discovery with Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges (Life of Jorge Luis Borges), a five-and-a-half-hour documentary by Argentinian director Mariano Llinas headed to Toronto after a world premiere in Venice.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
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  • She was decapitated in the coaster accident, and now has a doll’s head where her real head used to be.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
  • That still seems to mean so little to him that Lestat’s headless body, the threat of Regina being decapitated, and his own imminent death has not moved Louis to make amends.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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“Beheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beheaded. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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