headless
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- adjective
- /ˈhɛd.ləs/
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descabezado
- Father pressed down on the handle and the headless bird lay still.
- headless figure
- headless and armless
An isolated forest in Canada where people keep turning up headless.
- An isolated forest in Canada where people keep turning up headless.
- Yes, just came out, yes, Headless Horseman, man.
Examples
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But they were headless corpses, remember?
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And so the little prince was left by himself beside the headless body of his mother.
Fiction book (1996) -
All you had was the headless body.
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How can you be nearly headless?
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And by the way, the headless corpse is a woman, not a man.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now there was a naked, headless mannequin in the living room.
Fiction book (1999) -
He reported a headless monster from outer space.
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The rough form of a duck, though headless, had emerged, its right wing beginning to assume feathers.
Fiction book (1999) -
The work consisted of three headless mannequins dressed in Victorian-styled gowns made from factory-printed wax textiles.
Academic text (1996) -
The museum displayed a headless statue that had been damaged over centuries.
Synonyms
Having no head or clear leader
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Headless comes from head + -less, where -less means 'without', so it originally meant 'without a head' and is used literally for things like a broken statue or the headless horseman.