beheading

English

Verb

beheading

1. Present participle of behead.

Noun

beheading (plural beheadings)

1. An instance of at least one 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 by beheading at an industrial rate

Synonyms

• decapitation

Translations

an instance of beheading

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斬首 (cmn), 斩首 (cmn) (zhǎnshǒu), 斬罪 (cmn), 斩罪 (cmn) (zhǎnzuì), 斷頭 (cmn), 断头 (cmn) (duàntóu), 杀头 (cmn), 殺頭 (cmn) (shātóu), 問斬 (cmn), 问斩 (cmn) (wènzhǎn)

• Czech: dekapitace (cs) f, stětí (cs) n
• Danish: halshugning (da) c
• Dutch: onthoofding (nl)
• Esperanto: senkapigo (eo)
• Estonian: pea maha raiumine (et)
• French: décapitation (fr)
• German: Enthauptung (de) f

• Greek: αποκεφαλισμός (el) (apokefalizmos) m, καρατόμηση (el) (karatomisi) f
• Hebrew: עריפה (he) (a'rifa) f
• Hungarian: lefejezés (hu)
• Italian: decapitazione (it) f
• Japanese: 打ち首 (ja) (uchikubi)
• Macedonian: обезглавување (mk) (obezglavúvanje) n
• Portuguese: decapitação (pt) f
• Russian: обезглавливание (ru) (obezglávlivanije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: dì-cheannadh (gd) m
• Spanish: decapitación f, degüello m, descabezamiento m
• Swedish: halshuggning c
• Turkish: boynunu vurma (tr)