Execute
Head
Head verb - To go on a specified course or in a certain direction.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The second finisher, the Fujiyama Tiger Breaker, consists in using a Tomoe Nage◊ and then, before he falls, kicking the opponent in the back three or four times before kicking him very high, stand up, catch his fall with the head and execute a backbreaker.
Source: Never Recycle Your Schemes -
Played straight in The Lion in Winter, when King Henry II lifts his sword over his head to execute his son Richard, but can't bring himself to go through with it.
Source: Sword over Head -
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2: Raziel holds the Soul Reaver over his head in order to execute Kain, only to spare him in the last second, changing his destiny and the course of history forever.
Source: Sword over Head
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