beheading

beheading

English

Etymology

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English behead
English -ing
English beheading

    From behead + -ing.

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    Verb

    beheading

    1. present participle and gerund of behead

    Noun

    beheading (countable and uncountable, plural beheadings)

    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.

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