Beheading

Definitions: Beheading

Beheading

Noun

1. Execution by cutting off the victim's head.

2. Killing by cutting off the head.

Date "beheading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Beheading

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure in some undertaking will soon follow. To see others beheaded, if accompanied by a large flow of blood, death and exile are portended. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Food & Agriculture	The process of removing all or most of the crown of a tree. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Beheading

Synonym: decapitation (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: dehorning (food & agriculture).

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Crosswords: Beheading

English words defined with "beheading": Beheadal ♦ Decollation, Decolling ♦ guillotine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "beheading": ACCESSION. (references)

Etymologies containing "beheading": Behead ♦ Decolling. (references)

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Modern Usage: Beheading

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Beheading Chinese Prisoner (1900)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Beheading

Domain	Title
Books	Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading (Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, Vol. 19) (reference) Invitation to a Beheading (reference) Proceedings of an Australian military court : war crimes trial 21st March 1948 of Sagejima Mangan, Hoyama Kenzo, Kohama Shozuke for the murder by beheading of Rev. Leonard Kentish, 5th February, 1943 (reference) Water into Wine and the Beheading of John the Baptist: Early Jewish Christian Interpretation of Esther 1 in John 2:1-11 and Mark 6:17-29 (Brown Juda) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Beheading

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Non-Fiction Usage: Beheading

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Saudi Arabia	Punishments include flogging, amputation, and execution by beheading, stoning, or firing squad. (references)
	Philippines	The ASG's many kidnapings, and its proclivity for beheading many of its victims to induce the payment of ransom, led to an intense government crackdown beginning in July, when the President cited the existence of a "state of lawlessness" in Basilan. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Beheading

"Beheading" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.17% of the time. "Beheading" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	54.17%	13	97,576
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	41.67%	10	111,207
Adjective (general or positive)	4.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Beheading

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "beheading": pigeon-beheading.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Beheading

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
beheading	170	beheading guillotine	3
beheading picture	23	beheading fetish	3
beheading photo	12	beheading guillotine picture	3
arabia beheading saudi	11	beheading knife	3
beheading public	10	beheading woman	3
beheading execution picture	10	beheading photo saudi	3
beheading pic	7	arabia beheading picture saudi	3
beheading video	6	arabia beheading in saudi	2
beheading execution	6	beheading fantasy	2
beheading female	6	baptist beheading john	2
beheading saudi	4	beheading by guillotine	2
beheading invitation	3	beheading daniel pearl	2
		beheading by execution	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Beheading

Language		Translations for "beheading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prerje e kokës (decapitation, decollation). (various references)

Bulgarian		обезглавяване (decapitation, decollation). (various references)

Chinese		断头 (Behead, Beheaded). (various references)

Danish		topkapning (dehorning, topping). (various references)

Dutch		toppen (dehorning, derricking, heading, luffing, pinching off, pollarding, tipping, topping), afkappen (cut off, dehorning, elide, topping, truncation). (various references)

Finnish		latvan katkaisu (dehorning, topping). (various references)

French		étêtement, étêtage, éhouppement, éhouppage, écimage. (various references)

German		enthauptend. (various references)

Greek		κορυφοτομία,ακροτομία (dehorning, topping). (various references)

Hebrew		עריפת ראש (decapitation). (various references)

Hungarian		lefejezés (decapitation). (various references)

Italian		svettatura di alberi in piedi (dehorning, topping), svettatura (dehorning, heading, pinching off, pollarding, tipping, topping), decollazione (decollation), decapitazione (decapitation, decollation, derotomy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		馘首 (dismissal), 剄 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かくしゅ (all sorts, dismissal, every kind, looking forward to, loyalty to, nuclide), けい (about, approximately, group, incline, knight, lean, light, lineage, lord, penalty, plan, punishment, sentence, state minister, strong, system, ten quadrillion, thorn, thousand billion, time, toward, whip). (various references)

Korean		참수. (various references)

Pig Latin		eheadingbay

Portuguese		desponta (dehorning, tipping, topping), decapitação (decapitation, decollation, derotomy). (various references)

Romanian		decapitare (decapitation). (various references)

Russian		отсечение головы. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odsecanje glave (decapitation). (various references)

Spanish		desmochado (dehorning, topping). (various references)

Swedish		toppning (dehorning, topping), toppkapning (dehorning, topping), halshuggning (decapitation). (various references)

Ukranian		відтинання голови (ax, axe, decapitation, decollation), обезголовлювання (decollation). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Beheading

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beheading": beheadings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beheading" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bahaeddin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Beheading"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "beheading" (pronounced buhe"ding)
5	-h e" d i ng	heading.
4	-e" d i ng	bedding, breading, dreading, reading, Redding, retreading, shedding, shredding, sledding, spreading, threading, treading, wedding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, tiding, trading, transcending, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Beheading

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-h-i-n"
	-2 letters: beading, bighead, heading, heeding, neighed.
	-3 letters: aedine, banged, beaned, beanie, behead, behind, binged, gained, hading, haeing, hanged, hinged, nighed.
	-4 letters: abide, agene, badge, baned, began, begin, beige, being, bhang, binge, deign, diene, dinge, genie, gibed, hedge, hinge, neigh.
	-5 letters: abed, aged, agee, agin, aide, bade, band, bane, bang, bani, bead, bean, been, bend, bene.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-g-h-i-n"
	+1 letter: beheadings.
	+2 letters: harbingered.
	+5 letters: bigheartedness, featherbedding.
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