Meanings
plural beheaders
- One who beheads or decapitates.
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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 beheader of Champagne bottles.”
2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York TimesSynonyms: decapitator, headsman
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who beheads or decapitates.
Origin
From behead + -er. Compare Middle English hedere, hevedare (“decapitator, executioner”).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish mestaaja
- mestaajaone who beheads or decapitates
French décapiteur
- décapiteurone who beheads or decapitates
Portuguese decapitador
- decapitadorone who beheads or decapitates
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beheader. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beheader
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