Beheading is valid Scrabble Word

Is beheading a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for BEHEADING in dictionary:

VERB:

cut off the head of (someone), especially as a form of execution

NOUN:

an execution by decapitation
execution by cutting off the victim\'s head
killing by cutting off the head

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to cut off the head of

Words related to BEHEADING

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Words that contain BEHEADING

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How to use BEHEADING in a sentence

Hanging, beheading, quartering and burning were the every-day spectacles.
Jesus was taken from the Cross dead in the very same sense in which the Baptist was dead after his beheading.
Fortunately remembering that she saw her father beheading chickens the night before, which guaranteed a substantial meal, she decided it was an absolute duty.
Hu and his relations controlled the country after 1370, until in 1380 Chu succeeded in beheading Hu and exterminating his clique.
It is worthy of remark, that in all countries where beheading and hanging are used as capital punishments, the former is always considered less ignominious.
Thus, in England, beheading is the punishment of nobles, when commoners for the same crime are hanged.
The crime of high treason is here punished with beheading.
Beheading in Prussia is now always performed with a heavy axe, the sufferer being previously tied to a block.
In China, it is well known that beheading is practised, sometimes accompanied with the most studied torments.
In the United States of America, beheading is unknown, the halter being the only instrument of capital punishment.

In many European countries, beheading with the sword still prevails.
The most dramatic of these was the beheading of the Duke of Buckingham in 1484.
I had a glimpse of Li-Hung Chang at Nanking, China, at an execution by beheading, and a glimpse of him an hour later playing leap frog with his grandchildren.
It was welcome intelligence to Ferdinand, and he finished the work they had thus commenced by hanging and beheading the adherents of Wallenstein without mercy.
Thirty executioners, with their assistants, found constant employment in beheading the condemned.
Still there are instances, both in the Inscriptions and in the sculptures, of what appears to have been a formal execution of captives by beheading.
Hunyades left two sons, and the King of Hungary repaid his services by oppressing both, and beheading one of these sons.
Nine dogs the hero at his table fed, Of which beheading two, their carcases He added also.
The gun was quickly laid on the wagon train and fired, the first shot beheading a mule.
He warned the executioner not to fall into the error which he had committed in beheading Russel, where it had been necessary to repeat the blow.
Beheading of the Due de Biron for conspiring against King Henry IV.
With a clean blow he drove the weapon into the flesh, and before the woman could move, he cut her throat also, almost beheading her.
Once clear of the tent he turned and faced him, made only one pass, and cut his head off as though he were beheading a chicken.
One of the best-known devices, in short grass and flank-fires, was the killing of a light beef, beheading and splitting it open, leaving the hide to hold the parts together.
I had a hope when the King spoke of beheading me, but he was only in jest, as I might have known.
The Chinese punish the preparation of poisons or capture of poisonous animals with beheading, confiscation, and banishment of wife and children.
When a number of the slaves were brought on deck to witness the beheading of the body of one of their comrades, they seized the occasion to leap overboard and were drowned.

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