DECAPITATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they decapitate ... he / she / it decapitates

Past simple: decapitated

Past participle: decapitated

-ing form: decapitating

Meaning:

Cut the head of

Example:

the French King was beheaded during the Revolution

Synonyms:

behead; decapitate; decollate

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