Verb (used with object), : Many people were decapitated during the French Revolution.    From Dictionary.com. 

All our big fellows have been "decapitated" - & good & a good many fellback into ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augusta County: Tony Pastor to Annie Harris, May 4, 1861] Reference

He spun, blocking an axe with the scabbard while the long sword decapitated a lich with a cutlass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

These had consciously "decapitated" the societies they kidnapped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference

"It seems that the earthquake kind of decapitated the place," said Perito.    From Wordnik.com.  [CJR] Reference

Another climate impact comes faster than predicted: Himalayan glaciers "decapitated".    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Progress] Reference

A UN official has said aid workers are dealing with a disaster "like no other" in UN memory because the country had been "decapitated".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

Jimmy's decapitated rabbit head flew out after us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave to the Rhinestone] Reference

That decapitated the organization of its leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  ['People Have Forgotten How Much We've Done'] Reference

I had collected lint, dead skin, and one decapitated ant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping the bedbugs at bay] Reference

I noticed a few of Maddy's green locks hanging decapitated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference

He said the victims included one person who was decapitated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brett Sloppy, Off-Road Driver, Involved In Fatal Car Wreck (PHOTOS)] Reference

On the porch a decapitated doll head sits amid a pile of debris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reassessing the Boom] Reference

Abu Sayyaf even claims to have decapitated one American captive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talking Time's Over] Reference

Later Kilidar's body was discovered, decapitated, its jaw broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Away With Murder?] Reference

"I saw their body parts, a decapitated head, brains on the ceiling.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaza doctor writes book of hope despite death of three daughters] Reference

In a public square, a woman decapitated for the crime of masturbation.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Admirer Visits Paul Bowles] Reference

The militia decapitated three of them and placed their heads on stakes.    From Wordnik.com.  ['You Can't Run, You Can't Hide'] Reference

I'd play with it and take a bird's eye view of my newly decapitated self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agitated Birds] Reference

If he had not just decapitated a chicken, he was a man I could have loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dinner in Mexico] Reference

Near a decapitated woman, Feehan found another woman, alive but moaning for help.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day That Changed America] Reference

I can't think of a single thing I'd rather do and that's why I decapitated the crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merritt, Snicket and the 'Tragic Treasury'] Reference

Something else also gives him away -- the decapitated body he is dragging behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warriors Of Red And White] Reference

Hip but companionable, it keeps you coming back for more, even after the decapitated cats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strange Trip] Reference

In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father's Porsche.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tragedy That Won’t Fade Away] Reference

Two other Kesui residents were also decapitated, and their heads placed on a table near a mosque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror Islands] Reference

Ann Banks's high-back chair spared her from being decapitated, and her wig limited the cuts to her head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aftermath: An Oral History] Reference

In ancient times, the decapitated and bloody heads of the enemy were posted at the city gates for all to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL AND CORRECTIONS] Reference

"The organization is decapitated," says a spokesman for the Spanish security forces, "but it's not eliminated.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waiting Games Are Over] Reference

To be sure, Simpson never explicitly admits to slicing his ex-wife's neck so savagely that he almost decapitated her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence Of Guilt?] Reference