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beheading
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As a noun, beheading means an instance of a person being beheaded.
Meanings of beheading
3 meaningsverb
Present participle of behead
noun
An instance of a person being beheaded.
“A large crowd gathered to see the beheading.”
“The guillotine was meant to humanize beheadings, but allowed the French Revolution to execute people at an industrial rate.”
Execution by cutting off the victim's head
Similar: decapitationKilling by cutting off the head
Similar: decapitation
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
noun: execution by cutting off the victim's head
noun: killing by cutting off the head
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