(v. t.) To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Example Sentences:
(1) And it is getting worse every day.” He shows a gruesome image from his Facebook page on his phone showing a Kurdish fighter being beheaded by Isis jihadis.
(2) The beheading of British aid worker David Haines on 13 September and the start of US-led bombardment of Isis positions in Syria on 23 September were followed by large anti- then pro-Isis reactions.
(3) He said Kashmiri wanted newspaper staff beheaded and the heads thrown from the building to send a message to the Danish authorities.
(4) They beheaded him with an axe and cut him into pieces," said Moomin Abdallah Ahmed, a Muslim trader in the Lakouanga suburb.
(5) The blackout remained in place until Kassig appeared in a video released last week, which showed the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning .
(6) But perhaps their most provocative piece of electioneering was an A6 election card with a photo of Muslim extremists holding up a placard reading: "Behead those who insult Islam".
(7) The kidnap and beheading of Croatian national Tomislav Salopek by the Islamic State affiliate Sinai Province in August 2015 was seen as an unusual instance of kidnap of a foreign national in Egypt.
(8) It’s been very interesting, with this second beheading, how very little of those images have been passed around,” said Family Online Safety Institute CEO Stephen Balkam, who serves on Facebook’s safety advisory board.
(9) While the beheading of hostages from the US, Britain and Japan drew condemnation from most religious sects within Islam , the gruesome images of the airman’s murder served as a unifying battlecry for Muslims across the world.
(10) But with prime minister Shinzo Abe stating that the chilling recording, purportedly released by Isis on Saturday, is genuine, the beheading of Haruna Yukawa marks a violent end to a troubled life.
(11) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(12) Egypt has called for UN-backed international intervention in Libya after launching air strikes on Islamic State (Isis) targets following the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians.
(13) Ruddock told the ABC’s Q&A program that an informant who witnessed a beheading in Syria would be unlikely to be able to come to Australia to give evidence in court.
(14) The government of Japan is in contact with the US government about the details.” Emwazi is believed to have beheaded two Japanese hostages, journalist Kenji Goto and security consultant Haruna Yukawa , earlier this year.
(15) Reprieve claims two Pakistani men convicted in the Saudi courts are due to be beheaded very soon.
(16) Earlier reports said the group were beheaded because they had attended a party that insurgents considered immoral.
(17) Abu Haleema had contact with a teenage jihadi who wanted to carry out a beheading on Anzac Day in Australia.
(18) Three were later beheaded, while a fourth was believed to have been killed in a Jordanian air strike.
(19) Last month, Egypt’s branch of the Islamic State group beheaded a Croatian oil worker who was abducted near Cairo, at the edge of the Western Desert.
(20) The cow was beheaded on the 54th day after abortion.
Lop
Definition:
(n.) A flea.
(v. t.) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
(v. t.) To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
(n.) That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
(v. i.) To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
(v. t.) To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
(a.) Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PBR took "no tough decisions", jibed the Conservatives, but it lopped £7bn off public spending and jacked up national insurance contributions by £3bn – fairly tough in anyone's book.
(2) LOP, unlike IMP, showed relatively weak effects on general behavior in mice, spontaneous EEG in cats and spontaneous motor activity in mice.
(3) Public companies have to be accountable, and that accountability often means lopping off freewheeling, creative endeavoirs that you hope will make money and concentrating on making cash with what you have.
(4) Various techniques of correction of lop ear have been described.
(5) Jonathan Ross has, for years, been a target for those who yearn to lop tall poppies.
(6) Remember those embarrassing bills for wisteria clearance at the young Conservative leader’s home amid the expenses debacle of 2009, and how these were lopped away by a merciless assault on the more shameless claims of various knights of the shire?
(7) The authors believe that the proportion of remissions may be increased combining Lycurim with vincristine, procarbazine and glycocorticosteroids (LOP or LOPP).
(8) President Lagos wants to lop $125m out of its budget and the generals are keen to ensure that they retain control of the copper export revenues that have guaranteed its material privileges for so long.
(9) Rogozin's attempt to bolt the present on to a lop-sided analogy with the past was not an honest attempt at historically grounded prognosis, but a warning to the west to stay out of the conflict.
(10) The Treasury was originally looking to lop an extra £10bn off spending, a demand for further cuts that has since risen to around £14bn.
(11) Nevertheless, over two hours and 47 minutes of rolling drama, the 20-year-old gave all he had in what was a curiously lop-sided five-setter, before the experienced Belgian, ranked 16 in the world, wore him down to win 3-6, 1-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0 in front of a fevered audience of 13,000.
(12) The authors report their experience in the surgical treatment of 78 patients with lop, prominent, or protruding ears.
(13) The equal-CA group was the only group advantaged by both the levels of processing (LOP) and the distinctiveness of encoding (DOE) manipulations.
(14) A clearer solution to our lop-sided post-devolution constitution can begin to heal this breach.
(15) Once surgically implanted into the ear of a Laboratory Lop rabbit, a thin tissue bed which grows between the layers of the chamber can be viewed through the microscope.
(16) It is applicable to protruding ears and some "lop" ears; scapha and concha can be corrected to individually varying degrees.
(17) MIP of apparent molecular mass 26 kDa was detected in extracts of adult DBA, LOP and CBA-LOP lenses, but only low molecular mass (less than 26 kDa) immunoreactive proteins were detected in similar extracts from adult CAT and NCT lenses.
(18) 'Lop-sided' cells formed approximately 18% of the total of Meynert cells studied and the 'perpendicular' 32%.
(19) He display- ed no signs of personal avarice; he cut his presidential salary when he came to power, and lopped off a further third of it as a regular donation to a children's fund.
(20) Reflecting on a lop-sided literary career, she adds, "You get this…" She searches unsuccessfully for the word and then says, "Something surges out of you at a certain age and you're full of it all.