What does behead mean?
Definitions for behead
bɪˈhɛdbe·head
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Princeton's WordNet
decapitate, behead, decollateverb
cut the head of
"the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
Wiktionary
beheadverb
To remove the head.
Etymology: beheafdian, from be- (with privative force), + heafod
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Beheadverb
To deprive of the head; to kill by cutting off the head.
Etymology: from be and head.
See a reverend Syracusan merchant
Beheaded publickly. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.His beheading he underwent with all christian magnanimity. Edward Hyde, b. vii.
On each side they fly,
By chains connext, and, with destructive sweep,
Behead whole troops at once. Philips.Mary, queen of the Scots, was beheaded in the reign of queen Elizabeth I . Joseph Addison, on Italy.
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behead
To behead means to cut off the head of a person or animal, typically as a form of execution. It can also refer to the removal of a leader or ruler. The term can also be used figuratively in certain contexts.
Webster Dictionary
Beheadverb
to sever the head from; to take off the head of
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Behead
be-hed′, v.t. to cut off the head.—ns. Behead′al (rare); Behead′ing, the act of cutting off the head.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of behead in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of behead in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of behead in a Sentence
I mean, they really think that they can behead the movement by removing a handful of individuals from the compounds, but it's patently not the case.
They are frightening the people, they behead people, explode bombs in markets, they still create an atmosphere where it is impossible for people to escape from them.
The first allegation is that, between 15 and 26 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to commit an act of terrorism, namely to carry out an attack at an ANZAC parade in Australia with the aim of killing and/or causing serious injury to people, the second allegation is that on 18 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to behead someone in Australia.
When did (the Prophet) Muhammad ever behead anyone? when did he take a knife and slaughter an innocent journalist?
The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings risks to the lives of the people we deploy, these insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They behead people ; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people.
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- ضَرَبَ عُنُقَهُArabic
- обезглавявамBulgarian
- decapitarCatalan, Valencian
- stítCzech
- halshuggeDanish
- enthaupten, köpfenGerman
- καρατομώ, αποκεφαλίζωGreek
- senkapigiEsperanto
- decapitar, descabezarSpanish
- pead maha raiumaEstonian
- گردن می زنید, گردن زدنPersian
- mestataFinnish
- décapiterFrench
- לערוף ראשיםHebrew
- lefejezHungarian
- [[գլուխը]] [[կտրել]], գլխատելArmenian
- memenggal kepala, memancungIndonesian
- decapitareItalian
- לִכרוֹת רֹאשׁHebrew
- 首をはねる, 打ち首にするJapanese
- កាត់ក, កាត់ក្បាលKhmer
- 목을 베다Korean
- dētruncō, obtruncō, decollarentLatin
- pōutoMāori
- обезглавуваMacedonian
- pancungMalay
- onthoofdenDutch
- ściąć głowęPolish
- decapitarPortuguese
- qhuruyQuechua
- отрубить голову, отрубать голову, обезглавить, обезглавливатьRussian
- halshuggaSwedish
- ตัดศีรษะThai
- kellesini uçurmak, kafasını uçurmak, boynunu vurmakTurkish
- chém đầu, chặt đầuVietnamese
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