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To behead someone is to cut off their head, usually as a punishment or in war. Kings once ordered it; news still uses it for that kind of killing. The person who is killed is beheaded. You can also hear it, a little more loosely, when people cut the head off a statue of an old leader. Though actually, for cooking — a fish, a chicken — English speakers usually say cut the head off, not behead. Behead keeps the feel of a sentence passed on a person. It is a violent, heavy word, not playground language.
斬首、砍頭
組成From Old English behēafdian, from be- (off, away) + head. So: to take the head off.
同家族的字
- headthe body part this verb takes off
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
beheadverb/bɪˈhɛd/
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To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.
- “For a while it was hand-to-hand between us, then blood went curling along the currents and I beheaded Grendel's mother in the hall with a mighty sword.”]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。