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Example sentences from the Web for decapitationAl Shabaab “sympathizers” allegedly carried out the beheading and posted a camera-phone video of the decapitation on Facebook. Death Squads in Kenya’s Shadow War on Shabaab Sympathizers|Margot Kiser|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST Last night, after the decapitation, rioters clashed with police again. Welcome to Woolwich, Where English Terrorists Say Sorry While They Murder|Peter Pomerantsev|May 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as Hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation. A Manifesto for Disorder: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’ Reviewed|Robert Herritt|November 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST But we can extrapolate from previous experience that decapitation does incentivize Hamas to ease up on its attacks. Do Targeted Killings “Work”?|Brent E. Sasley|November 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Bush administration launched the 2003 Iraq War with a decapitation strike aimed at killing Saddam Hussein. Trying to Kill Bashar al-Assad Not So Radical Given U.S. Security Interests|Peter Beinart|June 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST Sometimes, in cases of capital punishment, decapitation was performed by degrees! The Pirate City|R.M. Ballantyne He was caught and court-martialed and forced to witness the decapitation of his best friend who had tried to help him. The Story of Mankind|Hendrik Van Loon The said bard likewise brought away the head of Urien in his mantle, after his decapitation by the sword of an assassin. On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire|Charles Hardwick Decapitation was carried out in various ways according to social position. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan|Pter Vay He must in such case be mastered and prevented doing further harm by decapitation and thigh-forking, or by staking and burning. The Danish History, Books I-IX|Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
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n.The removal of a head, as of an animal, a fetus, or a bone. Words nearby decapitationdecant, decanter, decapacitation, decapitalize, decapitate, decapitation, decapod, Decapolis, decapsulate, decapsulation, decarbonate The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |