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  • verb US Present participle of bayonet.
  • noun A stabbing with a bayonet.

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Examples

  • NRLC Legislative Director Doug Johnson accused Ellsworth of "bayoneting" abortion opponents in the "back of the head" with an amendment that some abortion opponents have dubbed an "abortion money-laundering scam."

    Home/News 2009

  • "Stockton has issues that it needs to address, but an article like this is the equivalent of bayoneting the wounded," says Bob Deis, Stockton city manager.

    America's Most Miserable Cities Kurt Badenhausen 2011

  • Part of the horror of such memorable coups of contemporary photojournalism as the pictures of a Vietnamese bonze reaching for the gasoline can, of a Bengali guerrilla in the act of bayoneting a trussed-up collaborator, comes from the awareness of how plausible it has become, in situations where the photographer has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Part of the horror of such memorable coups of contemporary photojournalism as the pictures of a Vietnamese bonze reaching for the gasoline can, of a Bengali guerrilla in the act of bayoneting a trussed-up collaborator, comes from the awareness of how plausible it has become, in situations where the photographer has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Yeah my granddad fought on the Kokoda Trail bayoneting the Japanese and watching his mates dying of dysentery.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge! 2010

  • Too much bayoneting makes Jack a dull boy indeed, not to mention a little restless.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • As the granddaughter of Jewish refugees who escaped the pogroms in Russia, I heard stories of cavalrymen bayoneting babies.

    Jeanine Molloff: Teaching : A Political Tool for Repression or Freedom Jeanine Molloff 2010

  • In the end, though, Crook was but one of many characters in this drama whose actions led to the bayoneting of the Lakota chief.

    A Sioux War Chief and His Many Enemies Robert M. Utley 2010

  • For the more I thought about it, the more certain I became that she'd fight it out, in person, when our infantry fought their way hand-to-hand into her palace - it was easy, after Lucknow, to imagine bloody corpses on that quilted Chinese carpet, and the mirrors shattered by shot, and yelling looters smashing and tearing in those priceless apartments, sabring and bayoneting everything that stood in their way.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Here comes John McCain in full military garb, gunning down and bayoneting the wolves.

    New McCain Ad Portrays Palin As Obama's Prey 2009

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