beheading

From behead +‎ -ing.

beheading

1. present participle and gerund of behead

beheading (countable and uncountable, plural beheadings)

1. 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.

• decapitation
• decollation

• subheading