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beheader

beheader noun: one who beheads or decapitates.

beheader: one who beheads or decapitates
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Noun

beheader (plural beheaders)

  1. One who beheads or decapitates.
    • Mr. Hunt is so successful at the first goal that the big takeaway of “Marx’s General” may be that Engels, best known as a ruthless party tactician, comes across as the Mario Batali of international communism: a jovial man of outsize appetites who was referred to by his son-in-law as “the great...2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York Times

Synonyms of beheader

Forms of beheader

pluralbeheaders

Origin of beheader

From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).

Questions about beheader

What does beheader mean?
Beheader means one who beheads or decapitates.
What part of speech is beheader?
Beheader is a noun.
What is the plural of beheader?
The plural of beheader is beheaders.

Words near beheader in the dictionary

  1. beheadal
  2. beheadals
  3. beheaded
  4. beheadee
  5. beheadees
  6. beheader
  7. beheaders
  8. beheadest
  9. beheadeth
  10. beheading
  11. beheadings

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