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beheading

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for beheading.

Editorial note

Yet what do you want from an ape species who makes beheading videos and posts them on entertainment sites?

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Quick take

An instance of a person being beheaded.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of beheading gathered in one view.

noun

An instance of a person being beheaded.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for beheading.

noun

An instance of a person being beheaded.

Example sentences

1

Yet what do you want from an ape species who makes beheading videos and posts them on entertainment sites?

2

I'm much more worried about my son stumbling onto a beheading than porn, but I suppose to each his own.

3

The obvious counterpoint is that beheading videos are legal to watch.

4

Something must be done about these dangerous weapons that facilitate beheading!

5

I believe the recent beheading in France was caused by a knife.

6

If we can't stop shooting each other and beheading each other and blowing up each other, what makes us think we can stop each other from starving?

7

There are something like a billion Muslims who treat the Qur'an and the sunnah with equal reverence but somehow manage to get through their lives without beheading anyone or pillaging any cities.

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Amid all the atrocities carried out by Isis — its massacres of civilians, its beheading of hostages, its pillaging of antiquities — the systematic violence the jihadists have carried out against countless enslaved women and girls never fails to shock.

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China's wars are and were defensive or internal, with the exception of Korea (and even the intervention in Indochina - the Maquis Chocolat reported beheading some officers from a Chinese division that moved early on - was the result of an internal conflict, pushing a Southern general out of the way to make way for a Northerner to take up the space, although I don't have the details at hand, see e.g.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use beheading in a sentence?

Yet what do you want from an ape species who makes beheading videos and posts them on entertainment sites?

What does beheading mean?

An instance of a person being beheaded.

What part of speech is beheading?

beheading is commonly used as noun.