beheading
An instance of a person being beheaded.
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.
Origin
Etymology tree English behead English -ing English beheading From behead + -ing.
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of behead