beheading
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Etymology edit
Verb edit
beheading
- present participle and gerund of behead
Noun edit
beheading (countable and uncountable, plural beheadings)
- 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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an instance of beheading
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