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• v  cut the head of

• Hizballah believes that Mughniyah's assassination is part of an Israeli plan to decapitate the leadership of militant anti-Israel groups as a precursor for launching a new war .
• LACAYO: When did you first decide to take a mannequin and decapitate it and dress it in those "authentic" African fabrics? SHONIBARE: In 1995, something like that.
• The Arabs will not be impressed if we, like in their culture, decapitate all the little guys and exonerate anybody above a certain level who was responsible.

• behead
• decollate

News & Articles

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• UFC on FOX 8 results/photos: Ed Herman outstrikes Trevor Smith for split call
  SEATTLE – It took a little over two minutes for Ed Herman and Trevor Smith to forget everything they’d learned about defense and settle for trying to decapitate each other with one haymaker after another.
  July 27, 2013 - MMA Junkie

Quotes

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• Bill Clinton in International Herald Tribune
  There won't be tonight, unless you decapitate Michigan and Florida, which violates our values and is dumb politics,Bill Clinton said.
• John Walsh in Reuters
  For 27 years we've been asking, 'Who could take a 6-year-old boy and murder him and decapitate him? Who?'John Walsh said at a news conference. "We needed to know. We needed to know. And today we know."
• Kevin Rudd in Sydney Morning Herald
  To be blunt, when I got the phone call to say that in our near neighbour to the north, East Timor, there'd been an attempt to decapitate the entire democratically-elected leadership of that small democracy,Mr Rudd told ABC radio. "That...