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Definition: DECAPITATING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To behead.[Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Present participle conjugation of the verb decapitate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(decapitate)
1. Cut the head of.[Wordnet].
2. To cut off the head of; to behead.[Websters].
3. To remove summarily from office.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: decapitating, decapitated, decapitates, decapitator, decapitators, decapitatingly and decapitatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Decapitating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Definition: DECAPITATING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To behead.[Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Present participle conjugation of the verb decapitate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(decapitate)
1. Cut the head of.[Wordnet].
2. To cut off the head of; to behead.[Websters].
3. To remove summarily from office.[Websters].
4. Base verb from the following inflections: decapitating, decapitated, decapitates, decapitator, decapitators, decapitatingly and decapitatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "DECAPITATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Specialty Definition: decapitate

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] To behead; to cut off the head.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary[Verb] To remove the head of. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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