Well, it's time for your decapitation. Don't you have any last words to say?
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Decapitation
//ˈdi.kæp.əˌteɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "decapitation" (25 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
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12 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 40 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κεφαλοτόμος noun (beheading)
Arabic
1 entries- قَطْعُ الرَّأَس noun (beheading)
Belarusian
1 entries- абезгало́ўліванне noun (beheading)
Bulgarian
1 entries- обезглавяване noun (beheading)
Catalan
1 entries- decapitació noun (beheading)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 問斬 /问斩 noun (beheading)
- 斬罪 /斩罪 noun (beheading)
- 斬首 /斩首 noun (beheading)
- 斷頭 /断头 noun (beheading)
Danish
1 entries- halshugning noun (beheading)
Dutch
1 entries- onthoofding noun (beheading)
Esperanto
1 entries- senkapigo noun (beheading)
Finnish
1 entries- mestaus noun (beheading)
French
1 entries- décapitation noun (beheading)
Galician
1 entries- decapitación noun (beheading)
Georgian
1 entries- თავის მოკვეთა noun (beheading)
German
4 entries- Dekapitation noun (beheading)
- Enthauptung noun (beheading)
- Köpfen noun (beheading)
- Köpfung noun (beheading)
Greek
2 entries- αποκεφαλισμός noun (beheading)
- καρατόμηση noun (beheading)
Hebrew
1 entries- עריפת ראש noun (beheading)
Hungarian
1 entries- lefejezés noun (beheading)
Indonesian
4 entries- dekapitasi noun (beheading)
- pancung noun (beheading)
- pemancungan noun (beheading)
- pemenggalan noun (beheading)
Interlingua
1 entries- decapitation noun (beheading)
Italian
1 entries- decapitazione noun (beheading)
Japanese
2 entries- 打ち首 noun (beheading)
- 斬首 noun (beheading)
Kazakh
1 entries- бас шабу noun (beheading)
Khmer
1 entries- ការកាត់ក្បាល noun (beheading)
Korean
1 entries- 참수 noun (beheading)
Latin
1 entries- dēcollātiō noun (beheading)
Macedonian
1 entries- обезглавување noun (beheading)
Malay
1 entries- pemenggalan kepala noun (beheading)
Māori
1 entries- pōutonga (o te kakī) noun (beheading)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- dekapitasjon noun (beheading)
- halshogging noun (beheading)
- halshugging noun (beheading)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- dekapitasjon noun (beheading)
- halshogging noun (beheading)
Polish
1 entries- dekapitacja noun (beheading)
Portuguese
1 entries- decapitação noun (beheading)
Romanian
1 entries- decapitare noun (beheading)
Russian
1 entries- обезгла́вливание noun (beheading)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- dì-cheannadh noun (beheading)
Slovak
1 entries- dekapitácia noun (beheading)
Spanish
1 entries- decapitación noun (beheading)
Swedish
2 entries- dekapitering noun (beheading)
- halshuggning noun (beheading)
Tagalog
4 entries- dekapitasyon noun (beheading)
- pagpapapugot pagpugot noun (beheading)
- pagpupugot noun (beheading)
- pamumugot noun (beheading)
Turkish
3 entries- başını kesme noun (beheading)
- boynunu vurma noun (beheading)
- dekapitasyon noun (beheading)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Sami suffered what's referred to as an internal decapitation. In other words, his skull was severed from his spine.
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The coroner determined that the cause of death was decapitation.
Source: tatoeba (9951735)
Is decapitation painful?
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