decapitate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they decapitate | |
| he / she / it decapitates | |
| past simple decapitated | |
| past participle decapitated | |
| -ing form decapitating |
- decapitate somebody/something
to cut off somebody’s head 杀头；斩首 - decapitate something
to reduce the power of a group or organization by removing its leaders 杀头；斩首 Decapitating the regime led to years of chaos. 斩首政权导致了多年的混乱。 The party has effectively been decapitated. 该党实际上已被斩首。
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from late Latin decapitat- ‘decapitated’, from the verb decapitare, from de- (expressing removal) + caput, capit- ‘head’.