0 past simple and past participle of guillotine
1 to cut someone's head off using a guillotine:
During the French Revolution, thousands of people were guillotined.
2 to set a fixed time before a final vote must be taken on a particular law in Parliament:
Several of his close relatives, including his older brother, were guillotined.
Is it not a fact that we are to be kangarooed under this proposal and to be guillotined under a later one?
As usual, the debate was guillotined, so we had no real opportunity to explore the subject at great length.
Can he confirm that the 1977 legislation was not guillotined?
It is unfortunate that the debate has been guillotined.
Often the very big and important measures have been "guillotined" in the other place and much of them has not been properly considered at all.
The whole thing will be the usual farce of guillotined discussion.
But it would be too high a price to pay for improving the hours if all legislation were to be guillotined.
