The action of cutting off a person's head, especially as a form of execution.
the beheading of the aristocracy during the French Revolution
count nouna public beheading
Example sentencesExamples
Most of these executions took the form of public beheadings.
During the interregnum following the beheading of Charles I in 1649, Parliament forced the submission of governments that supported the displaced Stuart monarchy.
Public amputations of hands and feet are now common, and stonings and beheadings have been reported.
Methods of execution in those countries included hanging, shooting, beheading, stoning, electrocution and lethal injection.
Execution by beheading was a common punishment in the Roman world - although one typically reserved for the 'better class' of criminal, such as Roman citizens.
History is filled with tyrants who chose banishment over beheading.
The beheading of Charles resulted in many pubs in England being called "The Kings Head", but it is in Ireland that a pub of that name is associated with the actual beheading.
Two of the suspects had been condemned to death and faced public beheadings if their sentences were ratified.
Definition of beheading in US English:
beheading
nounbəˈhediNG
The action or an act of cutting off a person's head, especially as a form of execution.
the beheading of the aristocracy during the French Revolution
public beheadings
Example sentencesExamples
Two of the suspects had been condemned to death and faced public beheadings if their sentences were ratified.
Most of these executions took the form of public beheadings.
Execution by beheading was a common punishment in the Roman world - although one typically reserved for the 'better class' of criminal, such as Roman citizens.
History is filled with tyrants who chose banishment over beheading.
Methods of execution in those countries included hanging, shooting, beheading, stoning, electrocution and lethal injection.
The beheading of Charles resulted in many pubs in England being called "The Kings Head", but it is in Ireland that a pub of that name is associated with the actual beheading.
During the interregnum following the beheading of Charles I in 1649, Parliament forced the submission of governments that supported the displaced Stuart monarchy.
Public amputations of hands and feet are now common, and stonings and beheadings have been reported.