beheading
Chopping someone's head
Beheading is the act of cutting off someone's head, historically as a method of execution.
The term appears in historical contexts the beheading of Anne Boleyn and in reports of modern atrocities terrorist beheadings.
Figuratively, to behead an organization is to remove its leadership.
Severing head from body
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- bladeFlat cutting edge
block · axe · severing · capital punishment · gallows · condemned · sentence · public execution
Hilted fighting blade
- samuraiFeudal Japanese military caste
- seppukuRitualized Japanese self-disembowelment
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- nobilityTitled ruling class
royal · Tudor · French Revolution · ancient Rome · Viking · Celtic · headhunting · trophy
Head-body junction
- vertebraeInterlocking bones of spine
- cervical spineUpper vertebral column segment
- jugularMain neck blood vessel
- carotidMajor neck artery
severance · spinal cord · decapitate · separation · clean cut · trauma · instantaneous · consciousness
Levantine jihadist organization
- hostageCaptive held as security
- videoRecorded moving imagery
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- kidnappingUnlawful seizure of person
journalist · extremism · brutality · atrocity · ransom · captive · orange jumpsuit · radicalization
Act of taking away
- oustingForcible removal from position
- topplingCausing to collapse
- deposingRemoving from authority
- eliminatingRemoving from consideration
leadership · dethrone · organization · dismantling · power structure · coup · takeover · purge
decapitation
Severing head from body
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
blade · block · axe · severing · capital punishment · gallows · condemned · sentence · public execution · headsman
sword
Hilted fighting blade
- samuraiFeudal Japanese military caste
- seppukuRitualized Japanese self-disembowelment
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
nobility · royal · Tudor · French Revolution · ancient Rome · Viking · Celtic · headhunting · trophy · pike
neck
Head-body junction
- vertebraeInterlocking bones of spine
- cervical spineUpper vertebral column segment
- jugularMain neck blood vessel
carotid · severance · spinal cord · decapitate · separation · clean cut · trauma · instantaneous · consciousness · blood
ISIS
Levantine jihadist organization
- hostageCaptive held as security
- videoRecorded moving imagery
- propagandaBiased information for influence
kidnapping · journalist · extremism · brutality · atrocity · ransom · captive · orange jumpsuit · radicalization · jihadist
removal
Act of taking away
eliminating · leadership · dethrone · organization · dismantling · power structure · coup · takeover · purge · regime change
- historical activitiesjousting, archery, blacksmithing, falconry, feasting
- Apostle PaulPaul, Saul, Romans, Galatians, Corinthians
- martyrdommartyrs, martyr, Christian martyrs, Catholic martyrs, Stephen
- medieval justicetrial by combat, trial by ordeal, trial by fire, trial by jury, ordeal
- punishment historycapital punishment, death penalty, execution, hanging, torture
- punishmentsjail, prison, timeout, grounded, fine
beheadinghanging
Execution by noose
lethal injection · electrocution · firing squad · stoning · burning at the stake
beheadingpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
mummification · embalming · healing · bodily integrity · mending
beheadingresuscitation
Restoring vital functions
resurrection · revival · sparing · healing · reprieve