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to cut off someone's head, especially as a punishment. Synonym. decapitate. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Death penalties. boots on the ground idiom. burn. capital offence. capital punishment. chair. condemn someone to (do) something. death warrant. decapitate. decapitation. electrocution. firing squad. guillotine. hanging. hangman.
- English (US)
BEHEAD meaning: 1. to cut off someone's head, especially as...
- Znaczenie Behead, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
BEHEAD definicja: 1. to cut off someone's head, especially...
- Behead: Catalan Translation
BEHEAD translate: decapitar. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Behead: Arabic Translation
BEHEAD translate: يَقطَع عُنُق. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Translate English to Italian
BEHEAD translate: decapitare. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Translate English to Korean
behead translate: 목을 베다. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- English (US)
: to cut off the head of : decapitate. Synonyms. decapitate. guillotine. head. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of behead in a Sentence. Louis XVI was beheaded in 1793. Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded for plotting against Queen Elizabeth.
If someone is beheaded, their head is cut off, usually because they have been found guilty of a crime.
to cut off the head of; kill or execute by decapitation. Geology. (of a pirate stream) to divert the headwaters of (a river, stream, etc.). behead. / bɪˈhɛd / verb. tr to remove the head from; decapitate.
Definition of behead verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
UK /bɪˈhɛd/ verb cut off the head of (someone), especially as a form of execution Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Examples People were beheaded and killed during the last five weeks of the war. East Asian They hold hands as the line in front of them thins, as the prisoners are beheaded one by one.
To cut off the head of; decapitate. Webster's New World. To remove the head. Wiktionary. Synonyms: decollate. decapitate. big. behemoth. guillotine. kill. execute. Origin of Behead. From Middle English beheden, bihefden, biheveden, from Old English behēafdian (“to behead”), equivalent to be- (“off, away”) + head. From Wiktionary.
