Usually means: Remove the head from body.
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  1. decapitate: Merriam-Webster
  2. decapitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decapitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. decapitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. decapitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Decapitate, decapitate: Wordnik
  7. decapitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. decapitate: Wiktionary
  9. decapitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. decapitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. decapitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. decapitate: Dictionary.com
  13. decapitate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. decapitate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Decapitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Decapitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. decapitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. decapitate: Rhymezone
  19. decapitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. decapitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. decapitate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. decapitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. decapitate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. decapitate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. decapitate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decapitate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. decapitate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. decapitate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decapitate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See decapitated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive, literal) To remove the head of.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To oust or destroy the leadership or ruling body of (a government etc.).

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