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Explore Behead through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like decapitate or kill. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.

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Behead meaning

To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.

Synonyms of Behead

decapitate decollate kill

Related words

Other words often associated with Behead or its synonyms:

killing destruction blackball termination conclusion veto defeat devastation negative ending

Using Behead

  • The main meaning on this page is: To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.
  • Useful related words include: decapitate, decollate, kill.
  • In the example corpus, behead often appears in combinations such as: to behead, behead him, behead her.

Context around Behead

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 9 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

heart 1×

Often after:

wilders 1× innocents 1×

Sentence patterns with Behead

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

arrest and behead him 1× behead him for 1× hang or behead wilders 1× her heart behead her and 1× preparing to behead a child 1× terrorists who behead innocents or 1× they behead him and 1× threatened to behead his mother 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

before the attack 1× i don t 1× muhammad ashraf asif 1× so you want 1× sutcliffe realised he 1× the previous year 1×

Common sentence endings:

and behead him 1× behead a child 1× behead his mother 1× fit of rage 1× make ratings skyrocket 1× man in wales 1×

Words around Behead

Just before it in the word index:

behe 22 behdad 7 behbahan 2 behaviours 296 behaviourists 3 behaviourist 7

Just after it in the word index:

beheaded 161 beheaders 2 beheading 67 beheadings 16 beheads 11 beheira 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aanand 16 abcd 16 abdurrahman 16 aberdour 16 abergele 16 abg 16

Corpus analysis for Behead

  • In this selection, "behead" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, heart, wilders and innocents stand out and add context to how "behead" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include arrest and behead him and behead him for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "behead" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with behead

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Behead him for $900? (4 words)

Their intent was to arrest and behead him. (8 words)

So you want to behead me to make ratings skyrocket? (10 words)

Longer example sentences

Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali did not appear for trial at a closely guarded courtroom near Amsterdam as prosecutors accused him of abusing his position as a religious leader to call on followers to hang or behead Wilders. (37 words)

I don’t have much sympathy for that concern, but I do wonder about one particular disanalogy between people with especially deadly infectious diseases and terrorists who behead innocents (or any other violent offender). (34 words)

Sutcliffe realised he had left it there, went back to the cemetery where he had left her body, couldn’t find the bag, and tried to behead her in a fit of rage. (33 words)

Question examples

Behead him for $900? (4 words)

So you want to behead me to make ratings skyrocket? (10 words)

Example sentences (11)

Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali did not appear for trial at a closely guarded courtroom near Amsterdam as prosecutors accused him of abusing his position as a religious leader to call on followers to hang or behead Wilders.

Before the attack, the man allegedly threatened to behead his mother.

Behead him for $900?

Sutcliffe realised he had left it there, went back to the cemetery where he had left her body, couldn’t find the bag, and tried to behead her in a fit of rage.

Twitter merely labeled as “sensitive” a from a Chinese communist apparatchik that contains a false depiction of an Australian soldier preparing to behead a child.

So you want to behead me to make ratings skyrocket?

The previous year, white supremacist Thomas Mair murdered in the run-up to the referendum, and in 2015 a neo-Nazi tried to behead a Sikh man in Wales.

They behead him and throw the head into the sacrificial fire.

I don’t have much sympathy for that concern, but I do wonder about one particular disanalogy between people with especially deadly infectious diseases and terrorists who behead innocents (or any other violent offender).

Their intent was to arrest and behead him.

The suitors and Van Helsing track her down and, after a confrontation with her, stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic.

Common combinations with behead

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "behead" in a sentence?
An example: "Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali did not appear for trial at a closely guarded courtroom near Amsterdam as prosecutors accused him of abusing his position as a religious leader to call on followers to hang or behead Wilders." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "behead" from authentic English texts.
What does "behead" mean?
Behead means: To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.
What are synonyms of "behead"?
Common synonyms of "behead" include: decapitate, decollate, kill.
How many example sentences with "behead" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "behead", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.