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Noun Concept
Categories: Capital punishment, long volume value, Execution methods, Decapitation, Causes of death
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decapitation  beheading  behead  beheaded  beheadings
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Execution by cutting off the victim's head WordNet 3.0
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Execution by cutting off the victim's head WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Wikipedia
The severing of the whole head from the body Wikipedia Disambiguation
Complete separation of the head from the body Wikidata
Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating. Wiktionary
Beheading. Wiktionary (translation)
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If the headsman's axe was sharp and his aim was true, decapitation was a quick and relatively painless form of death. Wiktionary
IS A
execution
cause of death
execution
major trauma
PART OF
hanged, drawn, quartered and decapitated
HAS INSTANCE
execution of Louis XVI
Death of Marie Antoinette of Austria
beheading of Egmont and Horne
2010 Sikh beheadings by the Taliban
Murder of Anastasiya Meshcheryakova
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DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
NAMED AFTER
head
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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decapitation, beheading
Wikipedia
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decapitation
Wikidata
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decapitation
Wiktionary
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decapitation
Wikipedia Redirections
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behead, beheaded, beheading, beheadings, Beheadment, Celtic decapitation, death by the axe, decapitate, decapitated, decapitates, decapitating, Decapition, Decaptitation, Decollation, Decorpitate, Decorpitated, Decorpitating, Decorpitation, Head on a pike, Head on a pole, head on a stake, Head removal, Namakubi, Personal beheading, Spiked head, Sugitani Zenjubo, Sugitani Zenjubō, 杉谷善住坊
Wikidata Alias
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beheading, beheadings

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