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Al Shabaab “sympathizers” allegedly carried out the beheading and posted a camera-phone video of the decapitation on Facebook.

Al Qaeda in Iraq has proven it can survive decapitation more than once.

Last night, after the decapitation, rioters clashed with police again.

Antifragile things, meanwhile, are strengthened by it—just as Hydra grows stronger and more multiheaded with every decapitation.

But we can extrapolate from previous experience that decapitation does incentivize Hamas to ease up on its attacks.

This sentence the parliament of Paris commuted, by a small majority, into decapitation before burning.

At the time appointed, Sogoro and his wife are tied to two crosses, and their children brought out for decapitation.

The point of the sarcasm is presumed to have been the connexion of Ralegh's influence with the decapitation of Essex.

It was now acting and re-acting on the lining of the serenader's olfactory organ in a manner to threaten final decapitation.

The said bard likewise brought away the head of Urien in his mantle, after his decapitation by the sword of an assassin.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to decapitation, such as: beheading, crucifixion, electrocution, gassing, hanging, and hit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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