English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "koploos" ontbreek 'n kop of sonder 'n kop. In 'n letterlike sin verwys dit na die fisiese afwesigheid van 'n kop van 'n liggaam of voorwerp. "koploos" kan egter ook figuurlik gebruik word om iets te beskryf wat 'n leier of gesagsfiguur ontbreek, of wat rigting of doel ontbreek. Byvoorbeeld, 'n "koplose organisasie" kan een wees wat nie duidelike leierskap of rigting het nie.

Sentence Examples

  1. It stood upright upon the figure of a prostrate and headless giant.
  2. Every advisor of value also happened to be with the royal family at the time of the massacre, which means Astoran is, in essence, being led by a pack of headless chickens.
  3. Decapitation was easy the hard work was holding the duck to avoid being bruised while the headless duck flapped violently.
  4. Such is the general purport of this legendary superstition, which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
  5. Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives, as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.
  6. With a bloody thud, his head fell to the ground, leaving the whimpers of a pale, blond-haired woman, half stripped and trembling on the ground beneath the headless corpse.
  7. Where Dow and Grímnir had stood, there was nothing but body parts and headless corpses.
  8. My mother and sister were in the corner, both headless as well, their bodies still holding each other clinging to one another even in death.
  9. My thoughts are running off like headless chickens.
  10. Midnight blood gushed out of the headless form like a fountain as its many folds of flesh melted to the ground.