Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to guillotine
Participle: guillotined
Gerund: guillotining
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | guillotine |
| you | guillotine |
| he;she;it | guillotines |
| we | guillotine |
| you | guillotine |
| they | guillotine |
Perfect
| I | have guillotined |
| you | have guillotined |
| he;she;it | has guillotined |
| we | have guillotined |
| you | have guillotined |
| they | have guillotined |
Past
| I | guillotined |
| you | guillotined |
| he;she;it | guillotined |
| we | guillotined |
| you | guillotined |
| they | guillotined |
Pluperfect
| I | had guillotined |
| you | had guillotined |
| he;she;it | had guillotined |
| we | had guillotined |
| you | had guillotined |
| they | had guillotined |
Future
| I | will guillotine |
| you | will guillotine |
| he;she;it | will guillotine |
| we | will guillotine |
| you | will guillotine |
| they | will guillotine |
Future Perfect
| I | will have guillotined |
| you | will have guillotined |
| he;she;it | will have guillotined |
| we | will have guillotined |
| you | will have guillotined |
| they | will have guillotined |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | guillotine |
| you | guillotine |
| he;she;it | guillotine |
| we | guillotine |
| you | guillotine |
| they | guillotine |
Perfect
| I | have guillotined |
| you | have guillotined |
| he;she;it | have guillotined |
| we | have guillotined |
| you | have guillotined |
| they | have guillotined |
Imperfect
| I | guillotined |
| you | guillotined |
| he;she;it | guillotined |
| we | guillotined |
| you | guillotined |
| they | guillotined |
Pluperfect
| I | had guillotined |
| you | had guillotined |
| he;she;it | had guillotined |
| we | had guillotined |
| you | had guillotined |
| they | had guillotined |
Conditional
Present
| I | would guillotine |
| you | would guillotine |
| he;she;it | would guillotine |
| we | would guillotine |
| you | would guillotine |
| they | would guillotine |
Perfect
| I | would have guillotined |
| you | would have guillotined |
| he;she;it | would have guillotined |
| we | would have guillotined |
| you | would have guillotined |
| they | would have guillotined |
Imperative
| you | guillotine |
| we | Let's guillotine |
| you | guillotine |
Verbs conjugated like 'guillotine'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'guillotine'
guilloche,
bulletin,
bulletize,
ghillie,
gillie,
illumine,
pillorise,
pillorize,
reillumine,
autotune,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from French guillotiner (“to execute with a guillotine, to guillotine”), from guillotine (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). See: French '
guillotiner'.
Sample Sentences
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Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
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Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it. [2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:]
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Forgetting Solitaire, he almost dragged Bond through the door. At the last moment he remembered the girl and seized her with his other hand and pulled her in too, banging the door shut with his heel so that Mrs Stuyvesant's 'I hope you have a happy...' was guillotined before the 'stay'. [1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 126:]