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guillotined
Variant of guillotine
noun
- an instrument for beheading by means of a heavy blade dropped between two grooved uprights
- an instrument, working on a similar principle, as for cutting paper
- Brit. a method of limiting Parliamentary debate on a bill by voting at previously fixed times on specific sections of it
transitive verb guillotined, guillotining
to behead with a guillotine
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