Decapitated, that it has no head. In addition to the meaning described by Inés Merino García used figuratively when a group organised vertically they leave it without its main leaders or leaders. It comes from the latin "capitia" which is a vulgarizada form of "caput, capitis" (head) and the prefix Proprietary "".
It is the result of the beheading or cutting head, a kind of bloody and horrible death, whose origins go back to the stone age. It is a form of death consisting of curtailing the head of the body, using for this purpose of a cutting edge of great importance as a guillotine that can be operated automatically or with an axe or sword, taking the name of executioner or verduga, who carried out the executions. Currently, this type of execution of persons have no place, at least in the Western world. Unfortunately, actual beheadings have been in recent times to innocent people by jihadist terrorism. As examples of historical death by beheading, I remember Ana Bolena, María-Antoinette or Luis XVI, among many others.
