Noun

• S: (n) decapitation, beheading (execution by cutting off the victim's head)
• S: (n) decapitation, beheading (killing by cutting off the head)
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Verb

• S: (v) decapitate, behead, decollate (cut the head of) "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
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• 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"
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• direct troponym / full troponym
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• W: (adj) killable [Related to: kill] (fit to kill, especially for food)
• W: (n) kill [Related to: kill] (the act of terminating a life)
• W: (n) killer [Related to: kill] (the causal agent resulting in death) "heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States"
• W: (n) killer [Related to: kill] (someone who causes the death of a person or animal)
• W: (n) killing [Related to: kill] (an event that causes someone to die)
• W: (n) killing [Related to: kill] (the act of terminating a life)
• W: (n) kill [Related to: kill] (the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal)
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