Synonyms for behead
bɪˈhɛdbe·head

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1. beheadverb

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate

2. beheadverb

   To remove the head.

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate

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1. decapitate, behead, decollateverb

   cut the head of

   "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate

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1. beheadverb

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate, deprive of the head

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1. beheadverb

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate, execute

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1. List of paraphrases for "behead":

   decapitate

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1. Mustafa Bali:

   They are frightening the people, they behead people, explode bombs in markets, they still create an atmosphere where it is impossible for people to escape from them.

2. Deborah Walsh:

   The first allegation is that, between 15 and 26 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to commit an act of terrorism, namely to carry out an attack at an ANZAC parade in Australia with the aim of killing and/or causing serious injury to people, the second allegation is that on 18 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to behead someone in Australia.

3. Philip Mudd:

   Short term, they may win, the long-term solution for Iraq may not be a unified state if the only message they (Sunnis in Anbar province) get is either join ISIS, which will behead you, or support the government, which brings in rival Shia militias to oust the Sunnis. It's a very difficult political situation.

4. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The Middle East is plagued by anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-American extremism. Terrorists brutally behead their shackled captives before video cameras. Despots lead their people in chants of 'Death to America' while building intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach America.

5. Tim Collins:

   The effect of the ambulance-chasing lawyers and the play-it-safe judges is that we have got to the point where we have lost our operational capability to do tactical questioning. That in itself brings risks to the lives of the people we deploy, these insurgents are not nice people. These are criminals. They behead people ; they keep sex slaves. They are not normal people.