Definition of beheading
Verb
beheading
- Present participle of behead.
Noun
beheading (plural beheadings)
- An instance of at least one 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 by beheading at an industrial rate
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