headless
adjective
uk
/ˈhed.ləs/ us
/ˈhed.ləs/Meaning of headless in English
(Definition of headless from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of headless
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Many international banks have investigators running around like headless chickens, yet they are keeping quiet about what is happening lest confidence in those banks be diminished.
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Surely in a free society we should cater not just for headless majorities, but for a whole range of different individuals and groups, each with tastes of their own.
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Only four of the headless embryos survived until birth, and with no nostrils, no mouth to breathe through, they died immediately.
With this are associated a headless life-size figure who is not the owner of the clutching hand, and one or more heads.
There are no sophisticated tools that provide testability of all headless services (including message and database services along with web services) in a typical architecture.
All skeletons were headless with the skulls removed after original burial and replaced with rings made from cone shell.
However, it usually appears as a black, gigantic headless being.
Superstitions like the presence of a werewolf and a headless mule are also manifested in this popular festival.
He quickly points his flashlight up and is shocked to see that the headless horse's remains are lodged in the branches above.
His headless body then climbs onto the roof and manages to reattach his head.
The server can be a headless computer located anywhere on the network.
In critical opinion the headless figures are symbols of the conjunction of legalism and death.
To crush the still headless body of the krasue is fatal to the spirit.
Tambourines in rock music are most often headless, a ring with jangles but no skin.
Several were found in a well in the floor and were headless.
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