Synonyms for behead
bɪˈhɛdbe·head

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1. beheadverb

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate

2. beheadverb

   To remove the head.

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate

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1. decapitate, behead, decollateverb

   cut the head of

   "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate

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1. beheadverb

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate, deprive of the head

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1. beheadverb

   Synonyms:
   decapitate, decollate, execute

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1. List of paraphrases for "behead":

   decapitate

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1. President Barack Obama:

   Look, the point is this: my first job is to protect the American people, it is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.

2. Philip Mudd:

   Short term, they may win, the long-term solution for Iraq may not be a unified state if the only message they (Sunnis in Anbar province) get is either join ISIS, which will behead you, or support the government, which brings in rival Shia militias to oust the Sunnis. It's a very difficult political situation.

3. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The Middle East is plagued by anti-Western, anti-democratic and anti-American extremism. Terrorists brutally behead their shackled captives before video cameras. Despots lead their people in chants of 'Death to America' while building intercontinental ballistic missiles to reach America.

4. Mustafa Bali:

   They are frightening the people, they behead people, explode bombs in markets, they still create an atmosphere where it is impossible for people to escape from them.

5. Selvedin Beganovic:

   When did (the Prophet) Muhammad ever behead anyone? when did he take a knife and slaughter an innocent journalist?