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guillotine

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Main Entry: guillotine
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: decapitate

Synonyms:

behead, execute, lop
Main Entry: behead
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: decapitate

Synonyms:

bring to the block, decollate, execute, guillotine, head, kill, neck
Main Entry: cut
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise

Synonyms:

amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip
Main Entry: decapitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: behead

Synonyms:

ax, bring to the block, chop off one's head, decollate, execute, guillotine
Main Entry: execute
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: kill

Synonyms:

assassinate, behead, bump off, do in, electrocute, eliminate, finish, gas, guillotine, hang, knock off, liquidate, murder, purge, put away, put to death, shoot

Antonyms:

bear, create
Main Entry: kill
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deprive of existence; destroy

Synonyms:

X-out, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with, do in, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, immolate, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out, zap

Antonyms:

bear, create, give birth
Main Entry: murder
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: kill

Synonyms:

abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste*
Notes: the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness

Antonyms:

guard, preserve, protect, save
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