guillotine

guillotine is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
2. noun. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine.
3. transitive verb. To behead with the guillotine.
4. noun. instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
5. noun. closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
6. verb. kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine

   "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"

Common word forms

guillotined, guillotiner, guillotines, guillotining, guillotinement

Words from these letters

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