They all agreed to be happy if the thing didn't fly apart and decapitate someone.
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The latest observations confirm that the sun does sometimes decapitate comets.
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This allowed Charles'brain to decapitate the prisoner before the axe took its turn.
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A hit causes pieces of armour to fall away and a direct hit can decapitate a rival.
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It has been suggested that it took three strikes to decapitate Mary instead of two.
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The larger female will sometimes decapitate or even eat her mate during copulation.
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After the deed was done, Russell used The Magister's cane to decapitate him.
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Big sword, big fists, always angry and ready to decapitate,Skaar is my kind of fellow.
From the washingtontimes.com
At one point, Zdeno Chara tried to decapitate Alexei Kovalev with an elbow.
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Cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
(decapitated) beheaded: having had the head cut off; "the beheaded prisoners"
(decapitation) execution by cutting off the victim's head
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To remove the head of
(Decapitation) The act of beheading a person, usually instantly such as with a large and heavy knife or by guillotine, as a form of capital punishment. This form of capital punishment is still in use in some Arab countries, notably Saudi Arabia.
(Decapitation) The widely-held belief that Iraqi resistance would collapse once President Saddam Hussein had been toppled
(Decapitation) a killing method in which the head is quickly cut from the body. Like cervical dislocation, the goal is to quickly separate the spinal cord from the brain to provide a fast and painless death. ...
(Decapitation) n. Removing a hat with a bill on it.