Thesaurus / decapitate
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The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever.
PIECES OF HATEHEYWOOD BROUN
When one of them is killed, rather than allow the enemy to take his head, they decapitate him themselves, and bring his head back.
CHILDREN OF BORNEOEDWIN HERBERT GOMES
The head-ax is a long blade turned at just the proper angle to decapitate the victim scientifically.
THE GREAT WHITE TRIBE IN FILIPINIAPAUL T. GILBERT
He has allowed the Franks 223 to decapitate me, but for a time only, and as you see me now I am only a phantom.
LEGENDS & ROMANCES OF BRITTANYLEWIS SPENCE
This last is a very unpleasant idea, and helps to decapitate three unoffending primroses.
FAITH AND UNFAITHDUCHESS
But when they have been tried and they have failed, decapitate them.
VITTORIA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITH
I finally concluded to carry it home as it was, and then I could decapitate it, and take out the hook at my leisure.
RUDDER GRANGEFRANK R. STOCKTON
The order was to decapitate the victims, and bring their heads in sacks to Cairo to be exhibited to the people.
MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, COMPLETELOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE
Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad-browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARYAMBROSE BIERCE
Out of eyes that were glassy Wilbur saw him decapitate two men with a single stroke.
THE EYE OF WILBUR MOOKH. B. HICKEY
WORDS RELATED TO DECAPITATE
- abolish
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- behead
- blot out
- bump off
- butcher
- chill
- cool
- decapitate
- defeat
- destroy
- dispatch
- do in
- drub
- dust off
- electrocute
- eliminate
- eradicate
- execute
- exterminate
- extinguish
- finish
- garotte
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- knife
- knock off
- liquidate
- lynch
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- misuse
- off
- put away
- rub out
- ruin
- shoot
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- spoil
- strangle
- take a life
- take for a ride
- take out
- thrash
- waste
- abolish
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
- behead
- blot out
- bump off
- butcher
- chill
- cool
- decapitate
- defeat
- destroy
- dispatch
- do in
- drub
- dust off
- electrocute
- eliminate
- eradicate
- execute
- exterminate
- extinguish
- finish
- garotte
- guillotine
- hang
- hit
- knife
- knock off
- liquidate
- lynch
- mangle
- mar
- massacre
- misuse
- off
- put away
- rub out
- ruin
- shoot
- slaughter
- slay
- smother
- snuff
- spoil
- strangle
- take a life
- take for a ride
- take out
- thrash
- waste
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.