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Decapitate   Listen
verb
Decapitate  v. t.  (past & past part. decapitated; pres. part. decapitating)  
1.
To cut off the head of; to behead.
2.
To remove summarily from office. (Colloq. U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Decapitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... every good sermon and its text is just as vital as the connection between a peach-tree and its root. Sometimes an indolent minister tries to palm off an old sermon for a pretended new one by changing the text, but this shallow device ought to expose itself as if he should decapitate a dog and undertake to clap on the head of some other animal. Intelligent audiences see through such tricks and despise them. "Be sure your sin will find you out." When a passage from the Holy Scripture ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler



Words linked to "Decapitate" :   guillotine, kill



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