decollating

verb

present participle of decollate
as in decapitating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decollating
  1. decapitating
  2. beheading
  3. pruning
  4. heading
  5. shortening
  6. trimming
Verb
  • After decapitating the body, Kennedy tied the head to the top of the family's minivan with a bungee cord, making for a less-than-pleasant five-hour drive back home to Mount Kisco, New York, according to her recollection.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 May 2026
  • Trump took hostilities to a new level during his second term, launching strikes on land and at sea and ultimately decapitating the government.
    — Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Definition of decapitating
Verb
  • Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, was arrested in September 2025 in the beheading death of Chandra Nagamallaiah using a machete, Dallas police have said.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 July 2026
  • Eight pages later, Leucippe has to fake her own beheading to escape from pirates.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 June 2026
Definition of beheading
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  • Fungal disease damage can often be eliminated by pruning plants to improving the air circulation in and around the shrub.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 15 July 2026
  • Joanna Glovinsky runs a local fruit tree pruning and education company called Fruitstitute.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Definition of pruning
Verb
  • The plan heading into the upcoming campaign was always for McConnell to go out on loan.
    — Andy Jones, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • Nobody has scored more World Cup goals than Lionel Messi, who is up to 21 heading into Argentina’s Wednesday semifinal against England.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
Definition of heading
Verb
  • Engineers could move more quickly from sketches to testable 3D designs, reducing development costs, shortening design cycles, and exploring a wider range of ideas without creating large amounts of new training data.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026
  • On Tuesday, a Paris appeals court cleared a path for the 57-year-old Le Pen to run by shortening a ban on seeking public office that had spelled possible doom for her ambitions.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of shortening
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  • Conviction should not prevent an investor from trimming or exiting once the valuation has absorbed the catalyst.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
  • While some varieties will rebloom without deadheading, trimming fading flowers keeps the flower bed from looking tired.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
Definition of trimming
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“Decollating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decollating. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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