Usually means: Beheading, especially as form of execution.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. decollation: Merriam-Webster
  2. decollation, decollation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decollation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decollation: Wordnik
  5. decollation: Wiktionary
  6. Decollation, decollation: Dictionary.com
  7. Decollation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Decollation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. decollation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Decollation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. decollation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. decollation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. decollation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decollation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decollation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decollation: Medical dictionary

(Note: See decollate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decollation)

noun:  The act of beheading someone.
noun:  A picture of a decapitation, especially of the head of St John the Baptist on a charger.
noun:  The festival of the Baptist, celebrated on 29 August.

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