Decapitation synonyms

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impalement (related)
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dismemberment (related)
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beheading
An instance of at least one person being beheaded.
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disembowelment (related)
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strangulation (related)
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capital-punishment
The practice or legal sanction of allowing the imposition of the penalty of death for people convicted of committing certain crimes.
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the block
killing by cutting off the head
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the ax
killing by cutting off the head
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execution (related)
(Archaic) Effective, punitive, or destructive action.
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Find another word for decapitation. In this page you can discover 9 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for decapitation, like: impalement, dismemberment, beheading, disembowelment, strangulation, capital-punishment, the block, the ax and execution.
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Decapitation Sentence Examples

  • However, because the muscles and vertebrae of the neck are tough, decapitation may require more than one blow.

  • On the scaffold, "by the clemency of the empress," his punishment was mitigated to the severing of his right hand followed by decapitation.

  • Yet their decapitation strategy only succeeded in removing one Tory minister (Tim Collins) and there was no widespread desertion from Labor.

  • On the death of his father he was inveigled to Buda by the enemies of his house, and, on the pretext of being concerned in a purely imaginary conspiracy against Ladislaus V., was condemned to decapitation, but was spared on account of his youth, and on the king's death fell into the hands of George Podébrad, governor of Bohemia, the friend of the Hunyadis, in whose interests it was that a national king should sit on the Magyar throne.

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