as in heads
to cut off the head of
a particularly gruesome series of murders in which the victims were decapitated
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Astronauts fill it with trash before departure from the ISS, and then the spacecraft heads for a destructive reentry over the remote Pacific Ocean.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Freddy Peralta heads a group that includes Quinn Priester, Brandon Woodruff, rookie Jacob Misiorowski, and left-hander Jose Quintana.—
John Perrotto,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Decapitates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decapitates. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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