Noun guillotine has 2 senses
  1. closure by compartment, guillotine - closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
    --1 is a kind of closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law
  2. guillotine - instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
    --2 is a kind of
    instrument of execution
    Derived form: verb guillotine1
,Verb guillotine has 1 sense
  1. guillotine - kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"
    --1 is one way to
    decapitate, behead
    Derived form: noun guillotine2
    Sample sentence:
    They want to guillotine the prisoners
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