guillotined

Verb

guillotine (third-person singular simple present guillotines, present participle guillotining, simple past and past participle guillotined)

1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
   • Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
2. (transitive) To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
3. (UK, informal, transitive) To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
4. (US, informal, transitive) To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
5. (figuratively, transitive) To end anything abruptly.
   • Forgetting Solitaire, he almost dragged Bond through the door. At the last moment he remembered the girl and seized her with his other hand and pulled her in too, banging the door shut with his heel so that Mrs Stuyvesant's 'I hope you have a happy...' was guillotined before the 'stay'.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 126

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