Beheaded and Severed

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Beheaded adjective - Having had the head cut off.

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Severed and beheaded are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Severed" instead a verb "Beheaded".

Nearby Word: beheading

Severed adjective - Detached by cutting.

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Beheaded and severed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Beheaded" instead a verb "Severed".

Nearby Words: severe, severance, severing, severally

At one point Morag is beheaded, and only able to describe how it happened when somebody blows air up through her severed windpipe.

Source: Webcomic / Oglaf
The Minmax from that reality beheaded Thaco, Complains and a third goblin, and carries the still-living severed heads around on a length of rope, as a weapon.

Source: Webcomic / Goblins
In Afro Samurai, after seeing his father beheaded in a duel for the headband, Afro carries his severed head around, until it's destroyed in a fight with some thugs (which takes a while to happen).

Source: Alas, Poor Yorick

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