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UK
/kˈæpɪtˌeɪt/
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ADJECTIVE
- being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip
NOUN
- the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus
How To Use capitate In A Sentence
- Bush and his war cabinet, including Rumsfeld, Cheney and Powell, hastily convened at the White House to consider an airstrike to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership. 'I HAVEN'T SUFFERED DOUBT'
- But here, the longsword is the one that totally decapitated the dummy. TV for Gaming: Deadliest Warrior « Geek Related
- As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
- The swings were made out of the hardest substances known to man, and could decapitate anyone foolhardy enough to walk past.
- A bolt struck one of the assailants in the neck and nearly decapitated him.
- In battle, he is a clinical fighter who bisects and decapitates his opponents, lops off their limbs and disembowels them with surgical precision.
- Consider: in 1973 a team of Finnish and American scientists decapitated a dozen human fetuses, each aborted live through hysterotomy, and kept the heads alive artificially for study. A Search For Limits
- As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
- The genus is characterized by tetramerous flowers with bithecal anthers, lack of pseudostaminodia, a capitate or poorly defined stigma, and pollen of the Amaranthus type.
- All our big fellows have been "decapitated" - & good & a good many fellback into ranks. Augusta County: Tony Pastor to Annie Harris, May 4, 1861