BEHEADING Synonyms

• the event of dying or departure from life

• the personification of death

• the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism

• the absence of life or state of being dead

• the time when something ends

• the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

• a final state

• the act of killing

• putting a condemned person to death

• the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

• (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer

• (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable

• a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out

• the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

• unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

• the molding at the top of a column

• affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

• closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill

• instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people

• kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine

• putting a condemned person to death

• cut the head of

• cut the head of