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Noun
S:
(n)
decapitation
,
beheading
(execution by cutting off the victim's head)
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sister term
S:
(n)
decapitation
,
beheading
(killing by cutting off the head)
direct hypernym
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inherited hypernym
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sister term
S:
(n)
killing
,
kill
,
putting to death
(the act of terminating a life)
S:
(n)
deathblow
,
coup de grace
(the blow that kills (usually mercifully))
S:
(n)
death
(the act of killing)
"he had two deaths on his conscience"
S:
(n)
euthanasia
,
mercy killing
(the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness))
S:
(n)
homicide
(the killing of a human being by another human being)
S:
(n)
dispatch
,
despatch
(killing a person or animal)
S:
(n)
fell
(the act of felling something (as a tree))
S:
(n)
suicide
,
self-destruction
,
self-annihilation
(the act of killing yourself)
"it is a crime to commit suicide"
S:
(n)
slaughter
(the killing of animals (as for food))
S:
(n)
poisoning
(the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill)
S:
(n)
suffocation
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asphyxiation
(killing by depriving of oxygen)
S:
(n)
sacrifice
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ritual killing
(the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity)
S:
(n)
electrocution
(killing by electric shock)
S:
(n)
decapitation
,
beheading
(killing by cutting off the head)
S:
(n)
genocide
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race murder
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racial extermination
(systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)
Verb
S:
(v)
decapitate
,
behead
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decollate
(cut the head of)
"the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"