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# beheaded

verb (behead, beheads, beheaded, beheading — this is the past form); adjective (beheaded)

«beheaded» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Killed by having the head cut off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#m1)
2. Having had the head or top part removed, as with a flower or statue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, kings and queens were beheaded, such as Anne Boleyn and Charles I in England, and many people in the French Revolution by the guillotine. It is a serious and violent word; history tells it to show how harsh punishments were.

### Examples

- Anne Boleyn was beheaded in 1536. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x1)
- King Charles I was beheaded in London. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x2)
- Many nobles were beheaded during the French Revolution. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x3)
- The statue was beheaded by vandals. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x4)
- The rhyme says: divorced, beheaded, died. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x5)
- In the past, beheading was used as a punishment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x6)
- Therefore she was easily captured, and the next day was beheaded in the market-place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/#x7)

### Note

This is the past form of «behead». Henry VIII's wives rhyme: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. A grim history word.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: The murder of Ish-bosheth is told as a shameful deed. David punishes the killers, and tradition reads this as a lesson that evil done for gain is not rewarded. In the primary lessons: In history lessons, kings and queens were beheaded, such as Anne Boleyn and Charles I in England, and many people in the French Revolution by the guillotine. It is a serious and violent word; history tells it to show how harsh punishments were.

### Examples

- Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bed-chamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. (Prophets 2SA.4.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beheaded/#x1)

### Note

This is the past form of «behead». Henry VIII's wives rhyme: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. A grim history word.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «beheaded» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beheaded/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beheaded» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/beheaded.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «beheaded» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/beheaded/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beheaded» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/beheaded.html) on Mova free.