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单词 behead
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beheadv.

/bɪˈhɛd/
Forms: Old English behéafdi-an, Middle English behæfdien, Middle English bihaued-en, Middle English biheafdin, bihafdi, Middle English bihefden, Middle English biheueden, Middle English behevede(n, bi-, byhede(n, -heede, Middle English–1500s behede, beheede, Middle English–1500s behedde, byhedde, 1500s beheadde, 1500s– behead.
Etymology: Old English behéafdi-an , < be- prefix 3 (with privative force) + héafod head n.1; compare Middle High German behoubeten in same sense, modern German enthaupten.
1. transitive. To deprive (a person or animal) of the head, to decapitate; to kill by cutting off the head.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (transitive)] > behead
beheadc1000
headOE
for-head13..
unheadc1480
firkc1540
decollate1599
decapitate1611
decoll1649
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xiv. 10 He asende þa and beheafdode Iohannem.
c1160 Hatton G. Matt. xiv. 10 behæfdede.
a1225 Juliana 40 To bihefden [v.r. beheafdin] pawel.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13124 Þat heo us wulle bihafdi.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. xiv. 10 He sente, and bihedide [v.r. byheuedede] Joon in the prisoun.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail xlvii. l. 155 Beheveded On Aftyr Anothir.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 48 Other sayd that they shold be beheedid.
a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 54/1 To bee byhedded at Pountfreit.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 93 Take him away, and behead him. View more context for this quotation
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xlvi. 719 A great number of the captives were beheaded.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vii. 156 We beheaded 2000 fellahs, throwing their headless corpses into the Nile.
figurative.1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiv. 209 To repaire the decayes thereof by beheading superstition.1726 M. Henry Wks. II. 370 It adds to our grief to see a family beheaded.
2. Of things: To deprive of the top or foremost part. rare.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > the top or front part
poll1577
behead1579
obtruncate1599
decapitate1776
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 271 Maister Heskins beheadeth the sentence.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) §20 400 Graffs of last year, cut to a few eyes, behead as at 98.
1887 N.E.D. at Behead Mod. Beheaded and curtailed words.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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