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Meanings of decapitated in English

Having had the head cut off.

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Examples for "beheaded"
1
Duterte said he heard reports they may have beheaded a police chief.
Reuters
2
The queen was sentenced on the sixteenth and beheaded the same day.
Which? Or, Between Two Women
3
Speratus, and twelve others, were likewise beheaded; as was Andocles in France.
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
4
If they delivered bad news, they ran the risk of being beheaded.
The South African
5
The mother was beheaded with the same sword as the three latter.
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, a...
Usage of decapitated in English
1
Five decapitated bodies were dumped in the state capital in late December.
Reuters
2
He got decapitated, and you registered late, so you got his number.
Finger lickin' fifteen
3
Officials giving a news conference said 16 of the dead were decapitated.
Radio NZ
4
Severin took one of the latter, and decapitated it with his knife.
Venus in Furs
5
A decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found at the scene.
Reuters
6
Similarly, when I decapitated the Bucky-fetch, I had been feeling no fear.
Proven guilty
7
He decapitated Isabelle Gagnon and opened her chest using just the knife.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
8
One man, Petam Ali, said his elderly grandmother was decapitated and burned.
The Guardian
9
One is decapitated by masked men while the other two are shot.
Reuters
10
A crocodile once decapitated a man there in front of his friends.
News.com.au
11
For one eternal moment, Myrrima thought that her husband had been decapitated.
Brotherhood of the Wolf
12
One man had been decapitated, the Communist sickle cut into his forehead.
Agent 6
13
I got my head out just in time to not be decapitated.
The Guardian
14
Meaning the victim was decapitated and the killer put the head somewhere.
Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
15
Taha's decapitated body was found dumped on a dirt road on Wednesday.
The Irish Times
16
Of these, one hundred and forty-six were decapitated by Cosimo's express orders!
The Tragedies of the Medici
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