decapitations
Heads violently removed
Decapitations are acts of cutting off heads.
The word appears in contexts of execution, warfare, and violent crime: The regime carried out public decapitations.
Figuratively, decapitation can mean removing leadership: The raid was meant to decapitate the organization.
Removal of head
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- blockSolid mass, or impede
Anne Boleyn · Marie Antoinette · axe · sword · public execution · condemned · treason · regicide
Deliberate unlawful killing
- slayingAct of killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
brutality · victim · corpse · horror · severing · carnage · bloodshed · warfare
Suffering for conviction
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- John the BaptistProphet who baptized the Messiah
- SalomeBiblical princess who danced
- JudithHebrew heroine, biblical
hagiography · relic · shrine · iconography · Caravaggio · saint · sacrifice · devotion
Predatory insect with grasping forelegs
- matingReproductive pairing behavior
- invertebrateAnimal sans backbone
- regenerationBiological self-repair process
- planariaRegenerative freshwater flatworm
hydra · insect · arthropod · scientific · specimen · dissection · entomology · zoology
Act of taking away
- topplingCausing to collapse
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- leadershipAbility to direct others
- overthrowForcible removal from power
ousting · downfall · demotion · firing · purge · corporate · restructuring · regime change
beheading
Removal of head
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- scaffoldTemporary elevated work structure
- executionerOne who kills condemned
Anne Boleyn · Marie Antoinette · block · axe · sword · public execution · condemned · treason · regicide · Tower of London
murder
Deliberate unlawful killing
atrocity · brutality · victim · corpse · horror · severing · carnage · bloodshed · warfare · combat
martyrdom
Suffering for conviction
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- John the BaptistProphet who baptized the Messiah
- SalomeBiblical princess who danced
Judith · hagiography · relic · shrine · iconography · Caravaggio · saint · sacrifice · devotion · miraculous
praying mantis
Predatory insect with grasping forelegs
- matingReproductive pairing behavior
- invertebrateAnimal sans backbone
- regenerationBiological self-repair process
planaria · hydra · insect · arthropod · scientific · specimen · dissection · entomology · zoology · experiment
removal
Act of taking away
- topplingCausing to collapse
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- leadershipAbility to direct others
overthrow · ousting · downfall · demotion · firing · purge · corporate · restructuring · regime change · cutting off
decapitationshangings
Suspended wall coverings
electrocutions · lethal injections · crucifixions · stoning · burning at the stake
decapitationsreattachments
Rejoining severed parts
restorations · preservations · embalmings · mummifications · healings
decapitationscoronations
Sovereign installation rites
enthronements · anointings · crownings · investitures · elevations
- decapitation strikeAttack on enemy command