Definitions for decapitation
de·cap·i·ta·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. decapitation, beheadingnoun

   execution by cutting off the victim's head

2. decapitation, beheadingnoun

   killing by cutting off the head

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. decapitationnoun

   The act of beheading; beheading.

   If the headsman's axe was sharp and his aim was true, decapitation was a quick and relatively painless form of death

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1. decapitation

   Decapitation is the act of removing the head of a living or dead organism, typically as a means of execution or killing. In a broader sense, it can refer to the removal of the uppermost part of anything.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Decapitationnoun

   the act of beheading; beheading

2. Etymology: [LL. decapitatio: cf. F. dcapitation.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Decapitation

   Decapitation is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine. An executioner carrying out decapitations is called a headsman. Accidental decapitation can be the result of an explosion, car or industrial accident, improperly administered execution by hanging or other violent injury. Suicide by decapitation is rare, but not unknown. Decapitation is quickly fatal to humans and most animals as brain death occurs within seconds without circulating oxygenated blood. However, some animals can survive decapitation, and die not because of the loss of the head directly, but rather because of starvation. Although head transplantation by the reattachment of blood vessels has been successful with other animals, a fully functional reattachment of a severed human head has not yet been achieved. The word decapitation can also refer, on occasion, to the removal of the head from a body that is already dead. This might be done to take the head as a trophy, for public display, to make the deceased more difficult to identify, for cryonics or for other reasons.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Decapitation

   Traumatic or experimentally induced separation of the head from the body in an animal or human.

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1. • Execution
   • Killing

How to pronounce decapitation?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of decapitation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of decapitation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of decapitation in a Sentence

1. Andre Strauss:

   This ritualized decapitation attests to the early sophistication of mortuary rituals among hunter-gatherers in the Americas, geographically, it expands the known range of decapitation in more than 2,000 kilometers (about 1,240 miles), showing that during the early Holocene, this was not a phenomenon restricted to the western part of the continent as previously assumed.

2. Radio Mocambique:

   Unknown persons killed by decapitation at least 10 people in recent days in the administrative post of Olumbi, Palma district, in the north of Cabo Delgado province.

3. Veryan Khan:

   Not only did it lack the correct blood pulsation for decapitation, but seems to have had the blood ‘faked’ with cornstarch.

4. Anthony Shaffer:

   He was going for a decapitation of the Ukrainian leadership, if you cut off the head you don’t need to invade everywhere else.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=decapitation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Decapitation
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decapitation
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=decapitation