beheading

English

Etymology

From behead +‎ -ing.

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.

Synonyms

• decapitation
• decollation

Translations

an instance of beheading

Chinese: Mandarin: 斬首／斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu), 斬罪／斩罪 (zh) (zhǎnzuì), 斷頭／断头 (zh) (duàntóu), 殺頭／杀头 (zh) (shātóu), 問斬／问斩 (zh) (wènzhǎn) Czech: dekapitace (cs) f, stětí n Danish: halshugning c Dutch: onthoofding (nl) Esperanto: senkapigo Estonian: pea maha raiumine Finnish: mestaus (fi) French: décapitation (fr) German: Enthauptung (de) f Greek: αποκεφαλισμός (el) m (apokefalismós) Hebrew: עריפה (he) f (a'rifa) Hungarian: lefejezés (hu) Italian: decapitazione (it) f Japanese: 打ち首 (ja) (uchikubi) Khmer: ការកាត់ក្បាល (kaa kat kbaal) Korean: 참수(斬首) (ko) (chamsu) Northern Kurdish: please add this translation if you can Kurdish: Macedonian: обезглавување n (obezglavuvanje) Norwegian: Bokmål: halshugging m or f, halshugning m Polish: ścięcie (pl) n, kęsim (pl) n Portuguese: decapitação (pt) f Russian: обезгла́вливание (ru) n (obezglávlivanije) Scottish Gaelic: dì-cheannadh m Spanish: decapitación f, degüello (es) m, descabezamiento (es) m Swedish: halshuggning (sv) c Turkish: boynunu vurma

See also

• subheading