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单词 decapitate
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Definition of decapitate in English:

decapitate

verb dɪˈkapɪteɪtdəˈkæpəˌteɪt
[with object]
  • 1Cut off the head of (someone)

    with one swift movement, he decapitated the king
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The chief wasn't so lucky; he was decapitated and died.
    • Everyone was very friendly and helpful too, apart from one Italian skier who almost decapitated me by turning very suddenly while carrying his skis on his shoulder.
    • As a final gesture of revenge, Beowulf finds Grendel's body and decapitates him.
    • A laugh escaped his lips when he saw my pain and I only felt like taking that steak knife and doing the world a favor by decapitating him.
    • Ancroe broke his opponent's sword with his axe and then decapitated him.
    • An eighth film is in the can for this year and ignores the fact that at the end of Halloween H20 Michael was literally decapitated.
    • They were not merely murdered; they were decapitated and the heads taken by their assailant.
    • She kicked goal after goal, each one whizzing past my face and coming this close to decapitating me.
    • If he loses, he is decapitated and his head mounted on a pike.
    • He never saw the blade swing through the air as it decapitated him.
    • Three of the slain policemen were decapitated after being shot during clashes with demonstrators last week.
    • After dropping 35 ft, he hit a metal fence which decapitated him.
    • A bolt struck one of the assailants in the neck and nearly decapitated him.
    • Nicklaus cannot contain his delight as the final putt drops: he throws his putter into the air, nearly decapitating the unfortunate Sanders as it comes down.
    • The High Court in Edinburgh heard how after he had strangled her with his bare hands he tried to decapitate her with a bread knife.
    • They would have needed the Jaws of Life to get her out of the car if the windshield hadn't caved in and decapitated her.
    • The killer sawed through the neck and spinal column, almost to the point of decapitating him.
    • Possibly a misprint, but did the man who was sentenced to three months for decapitating Margaret Thatcher's statue really offer to do 150,000 hours community work instead?
    • A woman's car accidentally hits a truck while, in slow motion, a piece of metal crashes through the windshield and decapitates her.
    • The second-half started with Colin Nish somehow remaining unpunished by referee Calum Murray for all but decapitating Alan Maybury, but it was symptomatic of Kilmarnock having more aggression about them.
    Synonyms
    behead, cut off the head of, guillotine, put on the block
    archaic decollate
    1. 1.1 Attempt to undermine (a group or organization) by removing its leaders.
      the Church had been decapitated by the arrest and deportation of all its bishops
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The essence of this operation which began Wednesday a week ago was to decapitate the leadership and I'm sure that's still a very, very high objective.
      • ‘Remember, you will have decapitated the command and control for the military forces,’.
      • The commonly held belief among activists is that Canada, as an exporter of GM food and opponent of the Biosafety Protocol, deliberately tried to decapitate the anti-GM bloc.
      • They twice attempted to decapitate the legitimate, democratically elected UK government.
      • We were led to believe that they were going to decapitate the army, decapitate the bureaucracy, put in a new regime relatively quickly and we would be out relatively quickly.
      • Sendero Luminoso has been decapitated, its leader Abimael Guzman is behind bars.
      • The result is a highly decentralized, cellular, insular network of enemies that cannot be decapitated or stopped by the excision of a single cell.
      • The problem, though, is that you're not going to decapitate an organization like JI.
      • Conservative MPs have most immediate reason to be alarmed by further advances for the Lib Dems, especially when it is coupled with an attempt to decapitate leading members of the shadow cabinet.
      • But I do see a clear pattern - a White House trying to decapitate another news organization.

Derivatives

  • decapitator

  • noun
    • Garcia Márquez, who had won the Nobel prize for literature the previous year, wrote that the ‘legendary and ferocious Nepalese decapitators,’ wielding ‘assassins’ scimitars,’ beheaded one Argentine prisoner ‘every seven seconds.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ALF, which is simply the name adopted by people who act illegally in behalf of animal rights, breaks inanimate objects such as stereotaxic devices and decapitators in order to save lives.
      • He would have known that the chosen instrument of revolutionary vengeance was the guillotine, that relentless mechanical decapitator which made the streets of Paris run with royal and aristocratic blood.
      • The 7950 decapitator cuts cleanly and quickly through bone and tissue.
      • What's she doing in a world of murderers, rapists, torturers, sadists, blood drinkers, decapitators and pimps?

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin decapitat- 'decapitated', from the verb decapitare, from de- (expressing removal) + caput, capit- 'head'.

  • capital from Middle English:

    The first meaning of capital was ‘to do with the head or the top of something’. From this evolved such modern meanings as ‘the large form of a letter’ and ‘the chief city or town in a country’. The word goes back to Latin caput ‘head’. Capital in the financial sense was originally the capital stock of a company or trader, their main or original funds. The use as an adjective meaning ‘excellent’, now old-fashioned, dates from the mid 18th century. The capital of a column comes via French from Latin capitellum ‘a little head’. To capitulate (mid 16th century) is to admit that you are defeated and surrender. When it first entered the language it meant ‘to parley or draw up terms’, having come via French from medieval Latin capitulare ‘to draw up under headings’. Like capital, its ultimate root is Latin caput ‘head’, source also of cap, chapter, chief (Middle English), and captain (Late Middle English), both the ‘head’ of a group of people, and decapitate (early 17th century).

 
 

Definition of decapitate in US English:

decapitate

verbdəˈkapəˌtātdəˈkæpəˌteɪt
[with object]
  • 1Cut off the head of (a person or animal)

    with one swift movement, he decapitated the king
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The second-half started with Colin Nish somehow remaining unpunished by referee Calum Murray for all but decapitating Alan Maybury, but it was symptomatic of Kilmarnock having more aggression about them.
    • They would have needed the Jaws of Life to get her out of the car if the windshield hadn't caved in and decapitated her.
    • Ancroe broke his opponent's sword with his axe and then decapitated him.
    • Everyone was very friendly and helpful too, apart from one Italian skier who almost decapitated me by turning very suddenly while carrying his skis on his shoulder.
    • He never saw the blade swing through the air as it decapitated him.
    • The chief wasn't so lucky; he was decapitated and died.
    • If he loses, he is decapitated and his head mounted on a pike.
    • The killer sawed through the neck and spinal column, almost to the point of decapitating him.
    • They were not merely murdered; they were decapitated and the heads taken by their assailant.
    • A woman's car accidentally hits a truck while, in slow motion, a piece of metal crashes through the windshield and decapitates her.
    • She kicked goal after goal, each one whizzing past my face and coming this close to decapitating me.
    • After dropping 35 ft, he hit a metal fence which decapitated him.
    • An eighth film is in the can for this year and ignores the fact that at the end of Halloween H20 Michael was literally decapitated.
    • A laugh escaped his lips when he saw my pain and I only felt like taking that steak knife and doing the world a favor by decapitating him.
    • Three of the slain policemen were decapitated after being shot during clashes with demonstrators last week.
    • Possibly a misprint, but did the man who was sentenced to three months for decapitating Margaret Thatcher's statue really offer to do 150,000 hours community work instead?
    • As a final gesture of revenge, Beowulf finds Grendel's body and decapitates him.
    • The High Court in Edinburgh heard how after he had strangled her with his bare hands he tried to decapitate her with a bread knife.
    • A bolt struck one of the assailants in the neck and nearly decapitated him.
    • Nicklaus cannot contain his delight as the final putt drops: he throws his putter into the air, nearly decapitating the unfortunate Sanders as it comes down.
    Synonyms
    behead, cut off the head of, guillotine, put on the block
    1. 1.1 Attempt to undermine (a group or organization) by removing its leaders.
      Italy's organized-crime network was decapitated when the godfather of the Sicilian Mafia was arrested
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They twice attempted to decapitate the legitimate, democratically elected UK government.
      • But I do see a clear pattern - a White House trying to decapitate another news organization.
      • Sendero Luminoso has been decapitated, its leader Abimael Guzman is behind bars.
      • We were led to believe that they were going to decapitate the army, decapitate the bureaucracy, put in a new regime relatively quickly and we would be out relatively quickly.
      • Conservative MPs have most immediate reason to be alarmed by further advances for the Lib Dems, especially when it is coupled with an attempt to decapitate leading members of the shadow cabinet.
      • The problem, though, is that you're not going to decapitate an organization like JI.
      • The essence of this operation which began Wednesday a week ago was to decapitate the leadership and I'm sure that's still a very, very high objective.
      • The result is a highly decentralized, cellular, insular network of enemies that cannot be decapitated or stopped by the excision of a single cell.
      • ‘Remember, you will have decapitated the command and control for the military forces,’.
      • The commonly held belief among activists is that Canada, as an exporter of GM food and opponent of the Biosafety Protocol, deliberately tried to decapitate the anti-GM bloc.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin decapitat- ‘decapitated’, from the verb decapitare, from de- (expressing removal) + caput, capit- ‘head’.

 
 
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