beheadverb [ T often passive ]
uk/bɪˈhed/us/bɪˈhed/to cut off someone's head, especially as a punishment
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Death penalties
- burn
- capital punishment
- chair
- condemn
- condemn sb to (do) sth
- condemned
- condemned cell
- execute
- execution
- executioner
- gallows
- garrotte
- hangman
- hung, drawn, and quartered idiom
- noose
- scaffold
- stake
- stone
- string
- string sb up
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Examples from literature
- For those beheaded in battle there is another burial, which is described in a later chapter.
- It arose out of a report that four soldiers had been arrested and were to be secretly beheaded the same night.
- The mayor sentenced him to be beheaded.
- They were all beaten with rods and beheaded in the middle of the forum.
- They were all seized, by the emperor's order, and beheaded.