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Meanings of headless in English

Portuguese
sem cabeça

Not having a head or formed without a head.

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sem cabeça

Not using intelligence.

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Usage of headless in English
1
He saw the world the way a headless saint would see it.
Lowboy
2
They actually are working on the headless chicken, believe it or not.
The new yorker
3
He saw the headless body of the sow and jumped in time.
Lord of the Flies
4
The valentine stayed there for some time until headless feet destroyed it.
The new yorker
5
The limp, headless body of that nameless young man filled my thoughts.
Proven guilty
6
He was becoming nervous over too much interest in the headless skeleton.
Bare Bones
7
Young Patrick jumped from the train as headless as good St. Denis.
Celt and Saxon — Volume 1
8
The clothing of the headless corpse upon the floor burst into flames.
Thief of lives
9
Mike advanced calmly with the carbine he'd acquired from the headless Sangheili.
Envoy
10
I scrambled out from under the corpse and found it was headless.
Obsidian Butterfly
11
He was still standing dumbly as before, staring at Corische's headless body.
Dhampir
12
But there was no spokesman for the whole, it was headless, passive.
The Left Hand of Darkness
13
The riverbank was empty except for the headless corpse of her sibling.
The Hyperion Cantos
14
Gavin laid the now-headless doll on a small table near the doorway.
Too wicked to kiss
15
Its like a headless doll or the thumb creations from Spy Kids.
Radio NZ
16
The fox and headless chicken were both sponsored by a tabloid newspaper.
The Irish Times
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Translations for headless
Portuguese
sem cabeça
Headless through the time
Headless across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common