different between beheaded vs beheading

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beheaded

simple past tense and past participle of behead
The executioner beheaded the king.

beheaded (not comparable)

Having had one's head cut off.
They gasped at the sight of the beheaded king.

From behead +? -ing

beheading

beheading (countable and uncountable, plural beheadings)

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.

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