beheading
beheading · beheadings
обезглавливание
Enthauptung
An instance of a person being beheadedAn instance of a person being beheaded.
/bɪˈhɛˌdɪŋ/
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)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.
Enthauptung
обезгла́вливаниеobezglávlivanije
More definitions
- killing by cutting off the head
- execution by cutting off the victim's head
Translations
8 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
an instance of beheading:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an instance of beheading:
Origin
From behead + -ing.From behead + -ing.
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Forms
plural: beheadings| Singular | beheading |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- killing by cutting off the head:decapitation
- execution by cutting off the victim's head:decapitation
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedsubheading
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable