English-Portuguese translations for beheading

• decapitação
  Neste momento estão presas na Arábia Saudita cinco pessoas acusadas de apostasia, que foram condenadas à morte por decapitação. 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.
  Um dizia respeito a um jovem muçulmano que, durante uma manifestação contra, segundo creio, os infames cartoons dinamarqueses, apelou à decapitação daqueles que insultam o Islão. One concerned a young Muslim who, during a demonstration regarding, I believe, the infamous Danish cartoons, called for the beheading of those who insult Islam.

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