decapitatee

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noun

One who is decapitated.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noundecapitatee (plural decapitatees)

plural decapitatees

  1. One who is decapitated.

    The appointee is a Taft man—the decapitatee is a bull moose.

    1912 July 16, “Taft the Beheader”, in The Gadsden Daily Times-News, volume VI, number 132, Gadsden, Ala.
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    On the clouds in the background stand little baby sans-culottes and blood-spouting decapitatees; disconcertingly, they are comically drawn, as if Gillray couldn’t sustain the print’s epic ambition.

    2006, Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 285

    Have you not, my fellow decapitatees, given thought to the matter?

    2007, Adam Roberts, Land of the Headless, Orion Books, →ISBN, page 20

    Synonyms: beheadee, decapitee

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOne who is decapitated.

Origin

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APA

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“decapitatee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/decapitatee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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