Noun

• S: (n) decapitation, beheading (execution by cutting off the victim's head)
• S: (n) decapitation, beheading (killing by cutting off the head)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) killing, kill, putting to death (the act of terminating a life)
• S: (n) termination, ending, conclusion (the act of ending something) "the termination of the agreement"
• S: (n) change of state (the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics)
• S: (n) change (the action of changing something) "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"
• S: (n) action (something done (usually as opposed to something said)) "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
• S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

Verb

• S: (v) decapitate, behead, decollate (cut the head of) "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) guillotine (kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine) "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly) "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
• verb group
• direct troponym / full troponym
• cause
• phrasal verb
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• sentence frame