beheading

English

From behead +‎ -ing

beheading

beheading (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.

an instance of beheading

Chinese:
Mandarin: 斬首 (zh), 斩首 (zh) (zhǎnshǒu), 斬罪 (zh), 斩罪 (zh) (zhǎnzuì), 斷頭 (zh), 断头 (zh) (duàntóu), 杀头 (zh), 殺頭 (zh) (shātóu), 問斬 (zh), 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