beheaded
/bɪˈhɛdɪd/
adjective
- Having had one's head cut off.
- The beheaded statue lay in the ruins of the temple.
- The museum displayed a beheaded marble figure from ancient Rome.
- In the story, the beheaded ghost wandered the castle halls.
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verb
- Past tense of behead: to cut off the head of someone.
- During the revolution, the king was beheaded in front of the palace.
- The warrior beheaded his enemy in the heat of battle.
- The executioner beheaded the prisoner with a single stroke.