to behead; to decapitate

to cut off; to chop sth in half

to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely

to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment); to cut sth in half; to reduce sth by a dramatic margin; to terminate; to cut short

variant of 嶄新|崭新[zhan3 xin1]