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

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
• S: (v) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life) "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
• phrasal verb
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• sentence frame