guillotine 的 2 个定义
- a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
- an instrument for surgically removing the tonsils.
- any of various machines in which a vertical blade between two parallel uprights descends to cut or trim metal, stacks of paper, etc.
guil·lo·tined, guil·lo·tin·ing.
- to behead by the guillotine.
- to cut with or as if with a guillotine.
guillotine 近义词
decapitate
更多guillotine例句
- Images of maskless students in Georgia went viral, for example, while teachers brought handmade coffins and a guillotine to a protest in New York City.
- The pace of executions slowed, but did not stop, although now former supporters of the regime were more likely to be the victims of the guillotine.
- We were talking and we said, we should probably write a finale for this season that could also be a series finale … We really felt like we were making the show with a guillotine above our necks.
- Coca-Cola is trying to cut underperforming brands, and even modern ones like Odwalla juice and regional sodas like Delaware Punch are poised to fall prey to the cost-cutting guillotine.
- The main approaches to execution since the guillotine have been hanging, the firing squad, and the electric chair.
- Wasn't the original name of “The Queen is Dead” “Margaret on the Guillotine”?
- There was actually a song called “Margaret on the Guillotine.”
- True, the great majority of the old bulls survived the post, revolutionary guillotine.
- Its heart is in the French Revolution, but so is the guillotine.
- Promotion came speedily when the guillotine cleared the way in the higher ranks by removing the incompetent and unfortunate.
- But France had had enough of the Terror, and knew that she could evolve her safety by other means than that of the guillotine.
- The question between the Girondist and the Jacobin was, "Who shall lie down on the guillotine?"
- The young ladies were all arrested, fourteen in number, and taken in a cart to the guillotine.
- Hence the Jacobins had serious cause to fear a reaction, and determined to silence their voices by the slide of the guillotine.