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Decapitate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cut off the head of; behead.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To remove the head of.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cut off the head of; to behead.

v. To remove summarily from office.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To behead; cut off the head of.

To remove from office summarily.

In mathematics, to strike out, as the highest number of the symbol, in the symbolic method of calculating seminvariants.

Of a word, to cut off the beginning.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. cut the head of

Word Usage

"There's an intriguing story in today's Telegraph about how the Tories plan to "decapitate" - that is, target and win the seats of - certain Labour ministers come the next election."

Antonym

recapitate

Verb Form

decapitated decapitates decapitating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

kill

Hyponym

guillotine

Form

decapitated decapitating decapitation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

behead decollate