David Benioff

We always talk about how the first several seasons were faithful to the books, and anybody who wanted to could go onto Wikipedia and learn Ned Stark gets beheaded or about The Red Wedding, and most people don't want to know - because why ruin a story?

American Novelist

Ali Khamenei

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.

Iranian Statesman

Roman Polanski

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

Director

Rick Scott

Somebody's going to have to stand up to ISIS. It is a threat. When we have Americans beheaded, when we have people posing as refugees and become terrorists as in France, this is a scary time in the world.

American Politician

Gloria Reuben

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

Canadian Actress

Arundhati Roy

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.

Indian Novelist

Kay Bailey Hutchison

We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.

Sarah Fielding

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

British Author

Lucy Worsley

Medieval kings left the job of kindness to their queens. If the queen begged for someone not to be beheaded, the king could show mercy without losing face.

Elizabeth Esty

I'm baffled that Mark Greenberg would send an offensive email politicizing the beheading of an American journalist.

Historically used as a severe penalty, often for betrayal or treason.

Severe Punishment

Sometimes used metaphorically to imply a complete and sudden removal.

Not Literal

Conveys a sense of violence, so it's inappropriate in casual contexts.

Violent Connotation

Used in gardening to describe the pruning of plants to encourage growth.

Gardening Term

In cooking, beheading can refer to preparing seafood like shrimp.

Cooking Context

Less violent than the first definition, used as a regular gardening term.

Less Aggressive

 A week later, they beheaded a young girl. They severed her head, put it on top of her computer with a similar note. And taking the digital counteroffensive because governments couldn't even understand what was going on or act, Anonymous, a group we might not associate as the most positive force in the world, took action,

Governments don't...

 So you can imagine the look on these people's faces when they're halfway through their main course, and this blood covered beheaded pigeon lands next to them. This was a really cool wildlife experience, but the thing that I love most about it was how it brought together so many people from so many different backgrounds.

Adventures in...

 I don't know what it is to have seen my relatives shot in front of me. I don't know what it is to lose the protection of my country. I also know that I'm very lucky compared to other hostages. Four days before my eventful release, four hostages were beheaded

Vincent Cochetel: I was...

 The royal family was arrested and the king charged with treason. After a trial, the once-revered king was publicly beheaded, signaling the end of one thousand years of monarchy and finalizing the September 21st declaration of the first French republic,

What caused the French...

 Honda being publicly slammed by a mob in middle of Kabul the body of nine-year-old Shaurya was returned to her family after she was brutally beheaded along with six other hazardous and ethnic afghan minorities young men as young as eleven year old

How the Afghan youth are...

 But as soon as he gripped the axe, another leapt to take his place. Arthur’s nephew, Sir Gawain, took the weapon instead. And with one swift strike, he beheaded the grinning knight. But the moment his skull met the ground, it began to laugh.

The myth of Gawain and...

 she can get back to the temple for the culmination of the festival. She makes her way to the city center, where a priest carries a woman on his back to the top of the pyramid. To begin the new season and feed the gods, she will be beheaded,

A day in the life of an...

 she says she’s willing to tell her people’s secrets to the ranking general. But she isn’t actually a traitor. On her fourth day under the general’s protection, she waits for him to get drunk and beheads him,

Artemisia Gentileschi:...

 conforms to our idea of ancient, primitive practices, the polar opposite of our urban, civilized ways. We don't do things like that. But that's the irony. We think a beheading has nothing to do with us,

Why Public Beheadings...

 a big happiness they took us at gunpoint out the building and he showed us where there was a freshly dug grave when he told us at sunset I'm going to behead you I will use this blade I don't think