v
(nonstandard) To assassinate.
n
(obsolete) Assassination, murder.
adj
Having had one's head cut off.
n
One who beheads or decapitates.
v
(transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
v
(transitive, figuratively, slang) To kill or murder.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
adj
With the head removed.
n
A picture of a decapitation, especially of the head of St John the Baptist on a charger.
n
(historical, slang) Forced deportation to a penal colony, especially as a punishment during the French Revolution.
v
(idiomatic) To outsource (jobs) to the People's Republic of China.
n
The act by which somebody is gibbeted.
n
The act by which somebody is gibbeted.
v
(Britain) To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
adj
(figuratively) Savagely attacked, subjected to an attempt to destroy utterly.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To behead; to decapitate.
n
(anthropology) The practice of cutting off and preserving the head of one's enemy.
n
An executioner whose method of dispatching the condemned is decapitation.
n
(slang) A hit: a premeditated murder for criminal or political purposes.
n
One who or that which kills.
v
To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob.
n
(slang) An activist who sabotages operations perceived as harmful to the natural environment.
adv
(dated) completely and with violence
n
The method of capital punishment where a criminal is cut into four pieces.
v
(archaic) To split, tear, break apart.
n
(slang, euphemistic) Murder.
n
One who roots or rummages through something.
n
The action by which someone is scalped.
n
(with "the") Those who have been killed.
n
(rare, nonstandard) One who is slain.
n
The crime of killing by strangling.
v
Obsolete spelling of tabor [(transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor.]
v
(obsolete, rare) To slaughter, massacre, kill.
n
One who, or that which, truncates.
v
(US politics, slang) To mention martyrs and wars (especially the American Civil War) in an effort to draw empathy.
Note: Concept clusters like the one above are an experimental OneLook
feature. We've grouped words and phrases into thousands of clusters
based on a statistical analysis of how they are used in writing. Some
of the words and concepts may be vulgar or offensive. The names of the
clusters were written automatically and may not precisely describe
every word within the cluster; furthermore, the clusters may be
missing some entries that you'd normally associate with their
names. Click on a word to look it up on OneLook.
Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!
Today's secret word is 5 letters and means "Electrode where oxidation reaction occurs." Can you find it?