21 translations
To translate another word just start typing!
Usage Examples English
- During the war British and Commonwealth forces hired Iban (Dyak) headhunters from Borneo to decapitate suspected MNLA members, arguing that this was done so for identification purposes.
- The spell forced the serpent to decapitate and burn into pieces.
- Wolverine, now berserk at the sight of Jean dying, uses his claws to decapitate Magneto.
- At one point in the episode, Snake sets up a wire across a road to decapitate Homer as he drives by.
- Although the poem does not define the word "vorpal" (and contains many nonsensical words with no meaning), the term has been adopted in role playing games to describe a sword which possesses a magical ability to decapitate those against whom it is wielded.
- On another occasion he stated that "the forces of Darkness cannot stand it Greece is a predominantly Orthodox country", and for this reason they want to decapitate it and flatten everything, by means of globalization, the novel deity that has appeared alongside another deity called human rights, and on account of which they expect us to curtail our own rights".
- Bouyeri then cut van Gogh's throat and tried to decapitate him with a large knife, after which he stabbed the knife deep into van Gogh's chest, reaching his spinal cord.
- He is now able to throw a manhole cover with enough force to decapitate someone with relative ease.
- forced conscription, collective punishment against civilians, the hiring of specialist Iban-headhunters to decapitate suspected communists, pioneering the use of Agent Orange (later used in Vietnam), and the use of scorched earth policies deprive the MNLA of resources.
- He was already dead when Bouyeri cut his throat with a large knife and tried to decapitate him.
- The sword returned to wizard hands when Neville pulled it out of the Sorting Hat and used it to decapitate Nagini, Voldemort's snake.
- The Imperial forces have made an attempt to divide and conquer their enemy, but with Warmaster Macaroth himself commanding the Urdesh campaign, it is possible that the Archenemy assault has a different purpose… to decapitate the Imperial command structure with a single blow.
- The ritual is highly codified, and the person committing suicide is assisted by a "second" who is entrusted to decapitate him cleanly (and thus expedite death and prevent an undignified spectacle) once he has made the abdominal wound.
- He was involved in creating a self-stable magnetic levitation system called Magnetic river which appeared in the film "The Spy Who Loved Me" where it levitated and propelled a tray along a table to decapitate a seated dummy.
- For example, in a 2007 article in "The Times" he wrote a satirical article which stated, "A festive custom we could do worse than foster would be stringing piano wire across country lanes to decapitate cyclists."
- Amor concluded in his UN report that the Iranian Government had apparently decided to execute Bishop Hovsepian Mehr and two other Christian leaders in order not only to discredit the Mujahedin organization by declaring it responsible for those crimes, but also, to decapitate the Protestant community.
- The television show "MythBusters" tested out the capabilities of Oddjob's hat, testing whether or not it would have been able to decapitate a stone statue.
- The characters involved in the story reasoned that they needed to decapitate themselves to gain the powers of the Head of Vecna, and several members of the group actually fought over which character would get to have his head cut off and replaced.
© dict.cc Russian-English dictionary 2026
Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
Links to this dictionary or to individual translations are very welcome!