Noun

• S: (n) decapitation, beheading (execution by cutting off the victim's head)
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• S: (n) execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty (putting a condemned person to death)
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• S: (n) corporal punishment (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)
• S: (n) beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)
• S: (n) electric shock (the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture) "they used cattle prods to administer electric shocks"
• S: (n) execution, executing, capital punishment, death penalty (putting a condemned person to death)
• S: (n) gauntlet, gantlet (a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim)
• S: (n) kick in the butt (punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind)
• S: (n) stoning, lapidation (the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death))
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• S: (n) decapitation, beheading (killing by cutting off the head)

Verb

• S: (v) decapitate, behead, decollate (cut the head of) "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
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