Crossword clues for decapitate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decapitate \De*cap"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decapitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decapitating.] [LL. decapitatus, p. p. of decapitare; L. de- + caput head. See Chief.]
To cut off the head of; to behead.
To remove summarily from office. [Colloq. U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To remove the head of.
WordNet
v. cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" [syn: behead]
Usage examples of "decapitate".
For Juanita Mott became the sixth young woman in the space of just two years to be sexually abused, tortured, decapitated and finally dismembered in the cellar beneath the pavement of number 25 Cromwell Street.
The beheadings, though, were mostly disappointments, except for one responsive victim whose decapitated corpse managed four or five floundering steps before toppling.
On another occasion Cheb had personally decapitated a hundred prisoners with his pincers.
If they could decapitate the Sprite dominium, the rest would be theirs for the taking.
Warkon, did not the psychometer show that the prisoner intended to kill Blogshak in the tavern and decapitate him at the edge of the city?
By custom another samurai always assisted at a seppuku, standing slightly behind the kneeling man, to decapitate him with a single stroke before the agony became unbearable and uncontrollable and so shamed the man at the supreme moment of his life.
Will Skeat had once told Thomas how he had seen a Scottish horse decapitated with a single blow of a falchion, and just to see one of the brutal blades was to feel terror in the gut.
If it was made of wire, placed correctly at the neck joints, and the man wielding it had arms big enough, his troga could decapitate a person before the victim had a chance to make a sound.
It was bad enough having to release the news that Pamela Wisher had been found dead and decapitated.
You found him drugged on toadthtoolth and decapitated him hacked through hith neck while he wath unconthiouth, unable to defend himthelf.
He leaped the fallen man and the decapitated monster, meeting face on the column of Archai coming up the passage from the sanctum.
Vas Deferens wanted to turn the government car around as soon as he spotted the first decapitated body sprawled across the great gravel drive at the rear of the palace.
Gerry took from her suit the decapitated head of the slain Gora and waved it aloft triumphantly.
North Carolina has heard the legend of the Maco Light, where it is said the ghost of a decapitated train conductor roams the Maco train trestle, holding his lamp high, searching for his lost head.
Attracted by the source of the screams, it dipped its head quickly and decapitated Prost with one bite.