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Meanings of guillotine in English
Usage of guillotine in English
1
My life is a torture; every moment the guillotine frowns before me.
2
He would have let you go to the guillotine in his stead.
3
Anti-republicans can only expiate their folly under the age of the guillotine.
4
The gaping planks of the guillotine are imbued with their last traces.
5
The duchess spoke as though the guillotine were being prepared for her.
6
Madame might give us the guillotine, he said with a sly smile.
7
So we've developed a kind of guillotine, I suppose you could say.
8
He wanted for the wobbly fan to fall and guillotine his head.
9
Now they were all assembled here around him and around the guillotine.
10
The sickening thunks had come from the slamming blade of a guillotine.
11
And then to-morrow at dawn, death for them both under the guillotine.
12
The guillotine had many similarities to Grandma in a completely illogical mood.
13
They were so terrified with all the citizen's threats of the guillotine.
14
Folk who knew said that this was a model of a guillotine.
15
Nadaud perished by the guillotine, and Delessert was, after a time, liberated.
16
Either by gathering fever or guillotine, death was sure of his prey.
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Translations for guillotine
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Guillotine through the time
Guillotine across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common