Synonyms for decapitate

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-kap-i-teyt

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈkæp ɪˌteɪt

Définition of decapitate

Origin : 1610s, from French décapiter (14c.), from Late Latin decapitatus past participle of decapitare, from Latin de- "off" (see de-) + caput (genitive capitis) "head" (see capitulum). Related: Decapitated; decapitating.

verb behead

Example sentences :

But when they have been tried and they have failed, decapitate them.
Extract from : « Vittoria, Complete » by George Meredith

The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever.
Extract from : « Pieces of Hate » by Heywood Broun

Good policy, perhaps; but it is better to corrupt than to decapitate.
Extract from : « The Man Who Laughs » by Victor Hugo

Renata continued to pick violets, and Max to decapitate those he could find.
Extract from : « Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker » by Marguerite Bryant

This cannibal trophy is not a sign of barbarous customs: the Bee does not decapitate Ants to adorn her hut.
Extract from : « Bramble-bees and Others » by J. Henri Fabre

One sailor was wounded by receiving upon his arm a blow from a sabre with which the turbaned pirate meant to decapitate Decatur.
Extract from : « Ocean's Story; or Triumphs of Thirty Centuries » by Edward Rowland

Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad-browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot.
Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce

When one of them is killed, rather than allow the enemy to take his head, they decapitate him themselves, and bring his head back.
Extract from : « Children of Borneo » by Edwin Herbert Gomes

He has allowed the Franks 223 to decapitate me, but for a time only, and as you see me now I am only a phantom.
Extract from : « Legends & Romances of Brittany » by Lewis Spence

Out of eyes that were glassy Wilbur saw him decapitate two men with a single stroke.
Extract from : « The Eye of Wilbur Mook » by H. B. Hickey

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