transitive. To deprive (a person or animal) of the head, to decapitate; to kill by cutting off the head.

To cut off the head of; to decapitate, behead. transitive. With a person as object, esp. with reference to capital punishment. Later frequently…

to put to death by hanging, by beheading.

transitive. To behead (a person).

With adverbs: To drive, force, or move sharply and suddenly off, out, up; †to cut off (some one's head). Also dialect to drive or ‘ferret’ out…

transitive. To sever at the neck; to behead.

transitive. To cut off the head of (a person or animal); to behead, kill by beheading. Also, to poll a tree, etc.

transitive. To behead; = decollate, v.1