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Definition of beheading in English: beheadingnoun bɪˈhɛdɪŋ mass nounThe action of cutting off a person's head, especially as a form of execution. the beheading of the aristocracy during the French Revolution count noun a 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: beheadingnounbəˈhediNG 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 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.
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