[
UK
/dɪkˌæpɪtˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /dɪˌkæpɪˈteɪʃən/ ]
[ US /dɪˌkæpɪˈteɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- execution by cutting off the victim's head
- killing by cutting off the head
How To Use decapitation In A Sentence
- CNN: Ukraine general arrested in decapitation case POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 23, 2009
- The big fear in Canada, following a particularly gruesome incident, is random decapitations on intercity buses.
- And I think we are past the point where what I would call a decapitation strike would take this movement down. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2006
- Officials don't want a decapitation of the regime that would leave no counter-party for negotiation.
- Their choices include nations that have swarms of malaria-infested mosquitoes, bad TV, deadly climates, decapitation issues, French people, bland food and other signs of inhospitableness. Driving the Rich Into the Sea
- Animals were killed by decapitation and destruction of the brain and spinal cord.
- Jim's figurative decapitation could thus be regarded as a literal interpretation of this ideal of racial unconsciousness.
- a frightful crime of decapitation
- Police at the scene of the accident said the woman was lucky to avoid decapitation.
- His brutal decapitation raises similar issues that this article addresses, issues that we hoped to never have to reconsider.