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beheading vs death penalty

death penalty vs beheading

beheading and death penalty both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
beheading Yes No No No
death penalty Yes No No No
As nouns, death penalty is a hypernym of beheading; that is, death penalty is a word with a broader meaning than beheading:
  • beheading: execution by cutting off the victim's head
  • death penalty: putting a condemned person to death
Other hypernyms of beheading include capital punishment, executing, execution.
beheading (noun) death penalty (noun)
killing by cutting off the head putting a condemned person to death
execution by cutting off the victim's head
Difference between beheading and death penalty

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