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• v  cut the head of
• s  having had the head cut off

• Police identified the victims as local drug dealers, saying five were decapitated while alive but that the rest had been dismembered after first being strangled or beaten to death.
• Blogs raved about "killing emos" and showed cartoon drawings of decapitated long-haired heads.
• A stack of corpses, part of 11 decapitated bodies bearing signs of torture, lie in a suburb of Merida in eastern Mexico There's a peaceful aura about the lifeless faces lined up on .

• decapitate
• behead
• decollate
• beheaded

News & Articles

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• Body of Decapitated Girl in 30-Year-Old Case to be Exhumed
  (KTVI) – Thirty years ago, a young girl was found murdered and decapitated. On Monday, crews will exhume her body....
  June 17, 2013 - FOX 2 News St. Louis
• Crews exhume body of girl found decapitated 30 years ago in St. Louis
  (KMOV) – The body of an unidentified girl found decapitated 30 years ago will be exhumed from the Washington Park Cemetery in Berkeley on Monday. Crews began exhuming the body of Jane Doe, also referred to as Hope, around 8 a.m. According to officials, Hope’s body was discovered by two men looking for piping in a vacant building on Clemens in February 1983. Officials said the girl was missing a ...
  June 17, 2013 - KMOV St. Louis
• Decapitated dog found in Fairfield
  A decapitated dog was found at Lake Kay in Fairfield on Wednesday morning, and officials are seeking information and trying to identify the animal.
  June 12, 2013 - The Evening Sun

Quotes

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• Michael Finley in SportingNews.com
  It's tough to watch a massacre, especially when you're the one being decapitated,said Michael Finley, in his second season with the Spurs but already appreciative of Popovich's mercy. "It would've been long because he stops on every play....
• Michael Berg in USA Today
  I knew he was decapitated before,Michael Berg said Tuesday. "That manner is preferable to a long and torturous death. But I didn't want it to become public."
• G Gordon Liddy in Media Matters for America
  Liddy noted that "this game ...... originated with the South American Indians and instead of a ball, they used to use the head, the decapitated head, of an enemy warrior."