beheading

noun (a beheading, beheadings); verb, -ing form of behead (behead, beheads, beheaded, beheading)

«beheading» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

Cutting off someone's head as a punishment; an execution. tree →
(verb) Cutting off the head of a person or animal. tree →

In the lessons

In history lessons, Anne Boleyn and Charles I were beheaded; in Tudor England the axe was used, in the French Revolution the guillotine. In Alice in Wonderland, the Queen of Hearts shouts «Off with his head!» all the time, but the King quietly pardons everyone and nobody is actually beheaded — the Cheshire Cat even has no body to cut its head from. Beheading is a terrible, real punishment from history, not a joke in real life.

Examples

Henry VIII ordered the beheading of two of his wives. tree →
«Off with her head!» shouted the Queen. tree →
The executioner said you can't behead a cat with no body. tree →
Charles I was beheaded in 1649. tree →
Nobody was really beheaded in Wonderland. tree →
Beheadings once took place in front of crowds at the Tower of London. tree →

Note

Verb behead (be + head): beheaded, beheading. Similar: decapitate (formal), execution (any killing as a legal punishment).

On Mova

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