English-Dutch translations for beheading

• onthoofding
  Er zitten momenteel in Saudi-Arabië vijf mensen gevangen die worden beschuldigd van geloofsafvalligheid en hen wacht de doodstraf door onthoofding. At the present time there are five prisoners in a Saudi prison accused of apostasy and they are facing the penalty of death by beheading.

Definition of beheading

• An instance of a person being beheaded

Examples

• 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.

Related words

• behead
• beheaded
• beheader
• to behead