English
Etymology
From behead + -ing.
Verb
beheading
- present participle and gerund of behead
Noun
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.
Synonyms
Translations
an instance of beheading
- Catalan: decapitació f
- 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), égorgement (fr) m
- 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
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