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say it: dee-KAP-uh-tayt
decapitate is a verb meaning "cut the head of". It carries one recorded sense.
cut the head of
“the French King was beheaded during the Revolution”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for decapitate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.