beheading

An instance of a person being beheaded.

Noun

  1. 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.

Origin

Etymology tree English behead English -ing English beheading From behead + -ing.

Forms

beheadings

Synonyms

decapitation decollation

Related

subheading

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of behead