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beheading
English
Etymology
From behead +? -ing
Verb
beheading
- present participle of behead
Noun
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.
Synonyms
- decapitation
- decollation
Translations
See also
- subheading
beheading From the web:
behead
English
Etymology
From Middle English beheden, bihefden, biheveden, from Old English beh?afdian (“to behead”), equivalent to be- (“off, away”) +? head.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??h?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Verb
behead (third-person singular simple present beheads, present participle beheading, simple past and past participle beheaded)
- (transitive) To remove the head of; to cut someone's head off.
Synonyms
- decapitate
- decollate
Derived terms
- beheaded
- beheading
Translations
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