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 Nagamallaiah was beheaded in the attack, according to the arrest affidavit, CBS 19 reports. Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025 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
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  • The series appeared to be headed for a sweep in the acting categories when Britt Lower pulled an upset early in the ceremony by taking the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series over Matlock nominee Kathy Bates.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The attitude of last season has vanished, replaced by that performative pregame dustup as Texas A&M headed toward its locker room.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 14 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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