decapitation

IPA: dɪkæpɪtˈeɪʃʌn

Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating.
The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization.
(politics) The unseating of a senior politician.

Examples of "decapitation" in Sentences

CNN: Ukraine general arrested in decapitation case
An Iraqi official called the decapitation an accident.
I suppose the right will point out that decapitation is not on the list.
One official, Bassam al-Husseini, called the decapitation "an act of God."
And I think we are past the point where what I would call a decapitation strike would take this movement down.
In fact, the word "capital" in the context of punishment was coined to describe execution by decapitation, derived from the Latin word caput, which means "head."
STEPHEN GREY: Yeah, I'm not sure quite where you lost me there, but I was just saying that there's this parallel war, and 373 is involved in what they call decapitation operations.
Recently President Bush signed a national security directive giving Cabinet agencies until early August to come up with plans to function if a so-called decapitation attack occurs.
However, to give credit where credit is due, “Evil Breed” does manage to stumble on an innovative way to prevent a “spot-the-wires” moment at the one hour, two minute twelve second mark by only filming the decapitation from the neck up.
It's about as big as it gets, I guess, when you remember, Paula, that the war began with an attempt, what they called a decapitation attempt, a bombing of what they thought was a bunker that Saddam -- there was one other attempt like it in a restaurant in a part of the city.