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skull

noun as in brain

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At that point on the deserted station platform, Ms Whyte had been stabbed 23 times, 11 of which penetrated her skull, with one cutting through her brain stem.

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Its long, shallow skull indicates it lacked the bone-crushing bite strength of T. rex.

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He had killed Mr Longworth with a hammer earlier the same day, shattering his skull with 13 blows to the head, and hid the body in a divan bed in the apartment.

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"We chose a terrifying looking skull and crossbones off the wall because we were marines and skulls and crossbones are pretty standard military thing," he said.

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After cleaning the skull, Maria places it with Tomas's other bones inside a wooden box lined with white cloth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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