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beheads

beheads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of behead.

Meaning of behead

Verb

behead (third-person singular simple present beheads, present participle beheading, simple past and past participle beheaded)

  1. (transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.
    • “For a while it was hand-to-hand between us,
      then blood went curling along the currents
      and I beheaded Grendel's mother in the hall
      with a mighty sword.”]1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 68

Questions about beheads

What is beheads the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Beheads is the third-person singular simple present indicative of behead.

Words near beheads in the dictionary

  1. beheadeth
  2. beheading
  3. beheadings
  4. beheadment
  5. beheadphoned
  6. beheads
  7. behear
  8. beheard
  9. behearing
  10. behearken
  11. behears

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