Decapitation - Wikipedia Samurai were often allowed to decapitate soldiers who had fled from battle, as it was considered cowardly Decapitation was historically performed as the second step in seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment)
decapitate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Verb decapitate (third-person singular simple present decapitates, present participle decapitating, simple past and past participle decapitated) (transitive, literal) To remove the head of
Decapitate - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com The verb decapitate comes from Latin de ”away” or “down” and caput “head ” Don’t confuse it with kaput, a German word that means “broken” or destroyed ” Of course, if someone were to decapitate you, you’d be pretty well kaput