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DECAPITATED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decapitated mean?
• DECAPITATED (adjective)
The adjective DECAPITATED has 1 sense:
1. having had the head cut off
Familiarity information: DECAPITATED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having had the head cut off
Synonyms:
beheaded; decapitated
Context example:
the beheaded prisoners
Similar:
headless (not having a head or formed without a head)
Context examples
Here there was a choke that couldn't be controlled, so he decapitated buttercups while he cleared his 'confounded throat'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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