Beheaded

Definition: Beheaded

Beheaded

Adjective

1. Having had the head cut off; "the beheaded prisoners".

Date "beheaded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Beheaded

Synonym: decapitated (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Beheaded

English words defined with "beheaded": behead ♦ decapitate, decapitated, Decollation ♦ grey ♦ John the Baptist ♦ Lady Jane Grey ♦ more ♦ scaffold, Sir Thomas More ♦ Thomas More. (references)

Specialty definitions using "beheaded": Apostles ♦ Balmérino, beheaded stream, Beheading, Birth-day ♦ Cabbage ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ FISH CLEANER MACHINE TENDER ♦ Hangman's Wages ♦ Improvisators, Inventors Punished ♦ Machaerus, Marino Faliero, Matthias ♦ Rouen ♦ Sanglier ♦ Urijah ♦ Winifred. (references)

Etymologies containing "beheaded": Behead. (references)

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Modern Usage: Beheaded

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Mr. Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must be beheaded. I suggest that you use your big Bowie knife. (Dracula; writing credit: James V. Hart)
Movie/TV Titles	Beheaded 1000 (1993)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Beheaded

Domain	Title
Books	Beheaded, Survived (Single Title Fiction) (reference) Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII (reference) Slug Bread and Beheaded Thistles: Amusing and Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening (reference) The Beheaded Freshman and Other Nasty Rumors (An Avon Flare Book) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Beheaded (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Beheaded

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Beheaded.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Beheaded

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Philippines	Its victims include Christians and Muslims; a Muslim captive was beheaded in October. (references)
	Panama	In 1998 a prison gang reportedly beheaded four prison escapees who belonged to a rival gang. (references)
	Nicaragua	In April FUAC-related gangs killed and beheaded several persons whom they suspected of being associated with the governing PLC. In May the FUAC ambushed a police convoy and wounded an estimated 20 policemen, including a local police chief. (references)
Women	India	On July 23, a 55-year-old woman accused of being a witch was beheaded by a tribal youth in Orissa. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Beheaded

"Beheaded" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 65.67% of the time. "Beheaded" is used about 67 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	65.67%	44	51,500
Lexical Verb (past tense)	28.36%	19	80,337
Adjective (general or positive)	4.48%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	1.49%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	67	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Beheaded

Expression using "beheaded": beheaded stream. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "beheaded": just-beheaded.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beheaded

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
beheaded	35
dearly beheaded	7
beheaded woman	7
beheaded pic woman	4
beheaded woman.com	2
baptist beheaded john	2
beheaded guillotine	2
beheaded photo	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Beheaded

Language		Translations for "beheaded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		断头 (Behead, Beheading). (various references)

Danish		reguleret flod (beheaded river), halshugget flod (beheaded stream). (various references)

Dutch		onthoofde rivier (beheaded river), afgesneden rivier (beheaded stream). (various references)

Finnish		heikomman vallannut voimakas virta (beheaded stream). (various references)

French		rivière décapitée (beheaded stream), rivière captée (beheaded river). (various references)

German		enthauptete. (various references)

Greek		καρατομημένος ποταμός (beheaded stream), εκτραπείς ποταμός (beheaded river), αιχμαλωτισθείς ποταμός (beheaded river). (various references)

Italian		corso d'acqua decapitato (beheaded river, beheaded stream). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		首になる (to be beheaded, to be dismissed, to be fired). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くびになる (to be beheaded, to be dismissed, to be fired). (various references)

Korean		참수하�". (various references)

Pig Latin		eheadedbay

Portuguese		rio truncado (beheaded stream), rio decapitado (beheaded stream), rio capturado (beheaded river). (various references)

Russian		обезглавливать обезглавленный (decapitated). (various references)

Swedish		bestulen älv (beheaded river), avlänkad flod (beheaded stream). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Beheaded

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai pemyaV apekefalisen ton iwannhn en th fulakh
Latin	405	Vulgate	Misitque et decollavit Iohannem in carcere
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And he sente, and bihedide Joon in the prisoun.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And sent and beheeded Ihon in the preson
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And he sent and had John's head cut off in the prison.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Beheaded

Language	Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 10
Cebuano	Ug iyang gipaadtoan ug gipapunggotan si Juan sulod sa bilanggoan,
Chinese	於是 �" 發人去、在監裡斬了約翰．
Croatian	Posla odrubiti glavu Ivanu u tamnici.
Danish	Og han sendte Bud og lod Johannes halshugge i Fængselet.
Dutch	En zond heen, en onthoofdde Johannes in den kerker.
Finnish	Ja hän lähetti lyömään Johannekselta pään poikki vankilassa.
French	et il envoya décapiter Jean dans la prison.
German	Und schickte hin und enthauptete Johannes im Gefängnis.
Hungarian	És elküldvén, fejét véteté Jánosnak a tömlöczben.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Ia menyuruh orang pergi ke penjara untuk memancung kepala Yohanes.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Lalu disuruhkannya orang pergi memancung kepala Yahya di dalam penjara.
Manx Gaelic	As hug eh fys yn kione dy ve giarit jeh Ean ayns y phryssoon.
Maori	Na ka tono tangata ia, a poutoa ana te matenga o Hoani i roto i te whare herehere.
Norwegian	og han sendte sine folk avsted og lot Johannes halshugge i fengslet.
Portuguese	e mandou degolar a João no cárcere;
Rumanian	Wi a trimes sq taie capul lui Ioan kn temniyq.
Shuar	Ni suntarin sepunmayan Juanka muuken tsupik itiarti tusa akupkamiayi.
Swahili	Basi, Herode akatuma mtu gerezani amkate kichwa Yohane.
Swedish	och sände åstad och lät halshugga Johannes i fängelset.
Uma	Nahubui-mi tantara-na hilou hi rala tarungku' mpopata' wuroko' Yohanes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Beheaded

Misspellings
	"Beheaded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: behated, reheaded. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Beheaded"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beheaded" (pronounced buhe"dud)
5	-h e" d u d	headed.
4	-e" d u d	bedded, breaded, dreaded, embedded, imbedded, leaded, shredded, threaded, unleaded, wedded.
3	-d u d	abided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, befriended, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dumbfounded, eluded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded.
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Anagrams: Beheaded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-e-h"
	-2 letters: beaded, behead, headed, heeded.
	-3 letters: haded.
	-4 letters: abed, bade, bead, dead, deed, hade, haed, head, hebe, heed.
	-5 letters: add, bad, bah, bed, bee, dab, dad, dah, deb, dee, edh, had, hae.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-d-e-e-e-h"
	+2 letters: bareheaded, boneheaded.
	+4 letters: benzaldehyde, bubbleheaded, doubleheader.
	+5 letters: benzaldehydes, doubleheaders, featherbedded.
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