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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.)





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"Decapitate" Quotes from Famous Books



... I would give many lives to save one sonnet by Baudelaire; for the hymn, "A la très-chère, à la très-belle, qui remplit man cœur de clarté" let the first-born in every house in Europe be slain; and in all sincerity I profess my readiness to decapitate all the Japanese in Japan and elsewhere, to save from destruction one drawing by Hokusai. Again I say that all we deem sublime in the world's history are acts of injustice; and it is certain that if mankind does not relinquish at once, and for ever, its vain, mad, and fatal dream of justice, the ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore


Words linked to "Decapitate" :   guillotine, behead, kill


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