Crossword clues for decapitation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decapitation \De*cap`i*ta"tion\, n. [LL. decapitatio: cf. F. d['e]capitation.] The act of beheading; beheading.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French décapitation, from Medieval Latin decapitationem (nominative decapitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin decapitare (see decapitate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating 2 The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization. 3 (label en politics) The unseat of a senior politician.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head) is the complete separation of the head from the body. In humans and most other animals, death will always result from such an injury, since severing the head deprives all other organs of the involuntary functions that are essential for the body to function while the brain itself is deprived of oxygenated blood.
The term beheading refers to the act of deliberately decapitating a person, either as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine. An executioner who carries out executions by beheading is called a headsman. Accidental decapitation can be the result of an explosion, car or industrial accident, improperly administered execution by hanging or other violent injury. Suicide by decapitation is rare but not unknown. The national laws of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Qatar permit beheading, but in practice, Saudi Arabia is the only country that continues to behead its offenders regularly as a punishment for crime.
Less commonly, decapitation can also refer to the removal of the head from a body that is already dead. This might be done to take the head as a trophy, for public display, to make the deceased more difficult to identify, for cryonics, or for other, more esoteric reasons.
Usage examples of "decapitation".
Kuangfu, although I would not like to be quoted in the presence of the Ancestress because the slightest mistake can mean instant decapitation.
Hiro is swinging the katana at his neck, so he is flying backward when the decapitation occurs.
Decapitation was nice, but spilling the brains all over the grass works, too.
She found that, after the Guiser had acted out his mock decapitation, the Sons danced again and the Betty and Hobby-Horse improvised.
A good housecleaning is what this place needs, along with a few hundred decapitations.
But here arose a fresh difficulty, the earls saying that this permission did not extend to women, women not being used to be present at such sights, and when they were, usually upsetting everyone with cries and lamentations, and, as soon as the decapitation was over, rushing to the scaffold to staunch the blood with their handkerchiefs--a most unseemly proceeding.
There was "a loud and universal peal of laughter from all the galleries" on the reading of a letter, in which a deputy wrote that he was threatened with decapitation.
The metanatricide was still being played out in the form of surgical strikes and decapitation coups, commando raids and counterraids on various corporate compounds and headquarters, combined with legal actions and PR of all sorts including a number of suits and countersuits finally introduced to the World Court, which Nadia considered encouraging.
The metanatricide was still being played out in the form of surgical strikes and decapitation coups, commando raids and counterraids on various corporate compounds and headquarters, combined with legal actions and PR of all sorts—including a number of suits and countersuits finally introduced to the World Court, which Nadia considered encouraging.
The metanatricide was still being played out in the form of surgical strikes and decapitation coups, commando raids and counterraids on various corporate compounds and headquarters, combined with legal actions and PR of all sorts— including a number of suits and countersuits finally introduced to the World Court, which Nadia considered encouraging.
One of them, a computer salesman from Damascus on his way home, got out with his flashlight, thinking there'd been an accident, but when he saw the roof back like that and the two decapitations in the front he ran back to his car, shouting to the other guy not to approach it, and called nine-one-one on his car phone.
True, that in some cities the uprising was crushed in blood, and mass decapitations of workers followed, as was the case in Paris in 1306, and in Cologne in 1371.
Chris knew from commissary gossip that a lot of the eviscerations, amputations, decapitations, and defenestrations in these monster adventures were not special effects and had nothing to do with stunt men.
Cut marks on the third cervical vertebra suggestive of decapitation by a sharp instrument with a nonserrated blade.
The stake, or a consecrated dagger stuck through the creature's heart stops the circulatory system, and decapitation disrupts the central nervous system.