guillotine

Speech parts

1. guillotine - Noun

2. guillotine - Verb

Meaning

A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.

Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.

To behead with the guillotine.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

closure by compartment lynch gibbet head knife slay gallows scythe mattock block cross kill execution murder finish
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Antonyms

guide accept assist boost comfort mercy
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Hypernyms

closure behead decapitate cloture decollate gag rule

Phrases with the word

cloth guillotine bread guillotine

Derivatives

Guillotined guillotining

Examples

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light. Franz Kafka

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. Clare Boothe Luce

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. P. G. Wodehouse

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. George Bernard Shaw

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine. Paulo Coelho

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine. Peter Weiss

Close letter words and terms

Guillory Guillotin guillotinable guillotine choke guillotine clause guillotinee