decapitate
verb (used with object)
to cut off the head of; behead.
decapitates
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present tense formof decapitate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Wind shear often decapitates hurricanes and makes it harder for nascent storms to develop.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
Not a lot of wind shear that decapitates storms?
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
In one telling poem, frost blithely decapitates an innocent flower in a meaningless show of its power; the flower does not react, because there is nothing unusual or objectionable about this tragedy.
From Slate ● May 17, 2016
She decapitates a squirming mealworm with her gloved thumb and feeds it with forceps to an injured, .014-ounce Eastern pipistrelle bat that probably was creamed by a car.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2011
The porpoises know it also; they have a way of biting the cuttle-fish which decapitates it.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
