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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECAP'ITATE, v.t. [L., head.] To behead; to cut off the head.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-tated; -tating) Etymology: Late Latin decapitatus, past participle of decapitare, from Latin de- + capit-, caput head — more at head Date: circa 1611 to cut off the head of ; behead • decapitation noun • decapitator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 behead (esp. as a form of capital punishment). 2 cut the head or end from. Derivatives: decapitation n. decapitator n. Etymology: LL decapitare (as DE-, caput -itis head)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Decapitate De*cap"i*tate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decapitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decapitating.] [LL. decapitatus, p. p. of decapitare; L. de- + caput head. See Chief.] 1. To cut off the head of; to behead. 2. To remove summarily from office. [Colloq. U. S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(decapitates, decapitating, decapitated) If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off. (FORMAL) A worker was decapitated when a lift plummeted down the shaft on top of him... VERB: be V-ed • decapitation (decapitations) ...executions by decapitation. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Behead, decollate, guillotine, deprive of the head, bring to the scaffold, bring to the block, bring under the headsman's or executioner's axe.

Moby Thesaurus

behead, bowstring, burn, crucify, decimate, decollate, defenestrate, demolish, electrocute, execute, garrote, guillotine, head, inflict capital punishment, lapidate, neck, put to death, raze, ruin, shoot, stone, strangle, unbuild, undo, unmake, wrack, wreck