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Beheading Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is DECAPITATION which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: DECAPITATION

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97%12Exact Match!
noun

• execution by cutting off the victim's head

• killing by cutting off the head

90%17 Legal penalty for serious crimes
noun

• putting a condemned person to death

90%5 The end of life
noun

• 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

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