decapitation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From French décapitation.

Mauled, compressed, twisted, and ruptured as they were, their chief common injury was total decapitation. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
In this sum were included at least 2,000,000 of contributions, which were levied at the expense of many decapitations. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
In the event of murder in their own tribe, the murderer suffers death by decapitation, provided he be in fault. — The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy, Henry, Sir Keppel

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