Usually means: Removal of the head, typically.
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  1. decapitation: Merriam-Webster
  2. decapitation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decapitation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decapitation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Decapitation, decapitation: Wordnik
  6. decapitation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. decapitation: Wiktionary
  8. Decapitation, decapitation: Dictionary.com
  9. Decapitation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Decapitation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. decapitation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. decapitation: Rhymezone
  13. Decapitation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. decapitation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. decapitation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. decapitation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. decapitation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Decapitation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Decapitation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. decapitation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. decapitation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (decapitation)

noun:  Beheading; the act of beheading or decapitating.
noun:  The ousting or destruction of the ruling body of a government or other organization.
noun:  (politics) The unseating of a senior politician.

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