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DECOLLATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decollate ... he / she / it decollates
Past simple: decollated
Past participle: decollated
-ing form: decollating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut the head of
Example:
the French King was beheaded during the Revolution
Synonyms:
behead; decapitate; decollate
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "decollate" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decollate"):
guillotine (kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
