beheading
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of behead#English|behead
beheading
- 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.
- French: décapitation
- German: Enthauptung
- Italian: decapitazione
- Portuguese: decapitação
- Russian: обезгла́вливание
- Spanish: decapitación, degüello, descabezamiento
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