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DECAPITATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decapitate ... he / she / it decapitates
Past simple: decapitated
Past participle: decapitated
-ing form: decapitating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut the head of
Example:
the French King was beheaded during the Revolution
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "decapitate" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decapitate"):
guillotine (kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to decapitate the prisoners
