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guillotine

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10 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡɪlətiːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted egiillnotuStarts with GEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine

Word origin

Borrowed from French guillotine, named after the French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), who proposed its use for capital punishment.

Used in a sentence

  • Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
  • Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it.

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