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What does behead mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word behead? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To remove the head; cut someone's head off.
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The soldier, killed by two Islamists who attempted to behead and disembowel him, was 25 years old and had a two year old son.
In April, the Taliban used a 12-year-old boy to behead a Pakistani they believed was a spy.
He was about to behead him when he wounded himself with the cutting edge of his sword.
I can only assume that it had been found stuck in a lobster pot or something, but why behead it?
One famous drama critic, the late Alexander Woollcott, could behead a new play with a single thrust of his pen.
The emperor tried to execute him but the blade of the axe broke each time they tried to behead him.

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