decapitate

You cannot decapitate a movement with no head, and you cannot sanction an organization that does not exist.

From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026

Mr. Rubio said Sunday it was unrealistic to take more risks in the raid to decapitate more of the regime, which is fair enough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

Bietz, who lives in Hanford, says he didn’t decapitate the animal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

On site, the workers decapitate exposed piping and pump cement into well pipes, sealing them.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

The poor truck was rattling to the point I expected the hood to fly off and decapitate a couple of pine trees.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Wind shear often decapitates hurricanes and makes it harder for nascent storms to develop.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

Not a lot of wind shear that decapitates storms?

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

In one telling poem, frost blithely decapitates an innocent flower in a meaningless show of its power; the flower does not react, because there is nothing unusual or objectionable about this tragedy.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

She decapitates a squirming mealworm with her gloved thumb and feeds it with forceps to an injured, .014-ounce Eastern pipistrelle bat that probably was creamed by a car.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2011

This time Private Mucklewame leads the field, and decapitates a dandelion.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

Williams said the body had not been decapitated or frozen, as some media outlets have reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026

Now, the despot regime has been decapitated, but ConocoPhillips isn’t jumping up and down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026

And this week he said Zambia's generation capacity had been "decapitated" by a recent drought owing to its reliance on hydroelectricity.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

"Sometimes you'll see ant heads on the bee legs because they were feeding and in response to an attack, the bee bit the ant and decapitated it."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025

From the top of the clouds rose the decapitated peak of a mountain, its summit covered with snow.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

There has to be warm water, it has to run deep and there has to be little to no crosswinds decapitating the storm, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023

While a turret-placed ammunition storage compartment is potentially vulnerable to a hit, built-in features can prevent the same level of decapitating devastation seen in the case of the T-72.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022

Now paroled, she telegraphs her angst with sunken eyes and chapped lips; the film’s sickly yellow lighting does the same, as does Ruth’s night-shift factory gig decapitating salmon.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2021

“They like decapitating the tall poppies and taxing until the pips squeak.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

And it was with great reluctance that we refrained from decapitating the whole field of daisies at one fell sweep, when we were once allowed to touch their upturned faces.

From The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various