decapitation
IPA: dɪkæpɪtˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "decapitation" in Sentences
- Even decapitation will not work.
- Decapitation will not kill a zombie.
- This is known as a decapitation strike.
- Not a single decapitation was successful.
- CNN: Ukraine general arrested in decapitation case
- An Iraqi official called the decapitation an accident.
- The botched decapitation in 1945 missed his brain stem and jugular vein.
- 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.