To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
Used in a Sentence
guillotine
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for guillotine.
Editorial note
You don't prescribe cough-suppressing opiates for a soar throat, the same way you don't prescribe a guillotine for headache.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of guillotine gathered in one view.
To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
(also figuratively) To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for guillotine.
verb
To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
verb
To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
verb
(also figuratively) To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
noun
(by extension) A device or machine with a cutting blade.
Example sentences
You don't prescribe cough-suppressing opiates for a soar throat, the same way you don't prescribe a guillotine for headache.
The party can bring an 'artistic display' of a real working guillotine to political rallies and chop watermelons, etc for demonstration.
Editors' heads are often the first on the guillotine when the cost-cutting rounds begin.
In the 90's you could easily find a small guillotine to kill instantly and humanely a rat or a mouse in any lab.
Eventually, things will come to a head (or several, under a guillotine).
It became a popularity contest to send political enemies to the guillotine.
Far more revolutionaries have been on the guillotine than behind it.
Probably the guillotine was so traumatic to her that she prefer to break the nek of the animals with a thin piece of granite instead.
Sometimes this includes putting those responsible for the hoarding under the guillotine - possibly for revenge and and possibly as a warning for future generations.
We need a new political party - The Guillotine Party.
Maybe PG's analogy is that at first it starts off a pinch, but grows to be a very large guillotine until you finally can outrun it.
Eventually it results in an uptick in guillotine manufacturing.
Quote examples
“This little thing called the French Revolution.” Occupy Wall Street should have set up a guillotine.
It's not about whether the brain can be tricked or jump scares will work, it's about whether you'll go "Oh wow" or "My head hurts this looks stupid" Like an 8-bit guillotine vs this one.
Guillotine, probably not, but I'm okay with punishing every "founder" of a "company" that errantly spends billions of tax dollars on weaponry and uses it to kill tens of thousands of innocent people.
Proper noun examples
Guillotine fail less, but if you know how to do it, this is also acceptable.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use guillotine in a sentence?
You don't prescribe cough-suppressing opiates for a soar throat, the same way you don't prescribe a guillotine for headache.
What does guillotine mean?
To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
What part of speech is guillotine?
guillotine is commonly used as verb, noun.