decapitate

• In Holland, even the most pedantic scientist would not think of using Latinisms like decapitate or exsanguinate. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
• ALICE ABALO, FORMER KIDNAPPING VICTIM (through translator): One day the group we were in had just killed about six people and proceeded to decapitate them. —  CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2006
• And, as a result, the U.S. began what was an opportunity to try, in the words of U.S. officials, decapitate -- decapitate -- the Iraqi leadership, if you will. —  CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2003
• HACKWORTH: Well, it certainly decapitate -- decapitates the leadership, but I think that they're broken down to lower leaders and that was the game plan from the beginning. —  CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003
• As Jamie McIntyre's been reporting, two cruise missile targets, one to the south of Baghdad, an attempt to, in the -- in the jargon of the military, decapitate, go after the leadership of Iraq, a target of opportunity, something -- a decision the president signed off on early in the evening, 6: 30-ish, if I remember John King's reporting -- 6: 30 or so in the evening, he gave the go-ahead after the intelligence came in. —  CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2003

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