Exact Match:
- guillotine
- instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
- kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"
Synonyms:
- ax,
- behead,
- beheading,
- block,
- bowstring,
- burn,
- burning,
- capital punishment,
- cloture,
- cloture by compartment,
- cross,
- crucifixion,
- crucify,
- death chair,
- death chamber,
- decapitate,
- decapitation,
- decollate,
- decollation,
- defenestrate,
- defenestration,
- drop,
- electric chair,
- electrocute,
- electrocution,
- execute,
- execution,
- fusillade,
- gallows,
- gallows-tree,
- garrote,
- gas chamber,
- gassing,
- gibbet,
- halter,
- hanging,
- head,
- hemlock,
- hemp,
- hempen collar,
- hot seat,
- inflict capital punishment,
- judicial murder,
- kangaroo cloture,
- lapidate,
- lapidation,
- lethal chamber,
- maiden,
- necktie party,
- noose,
- poisoning,
- put to death,
- rope,
- scaffold,
- shoot,
- shooting,
- stake,
- stem,
- stone,
- stoning,
- strangle,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- the ax,
- the block,
- the chair,
- the gallows,
- the gas chamber,
- the guillotine,
- the hot seat,
- the rope,
- tree