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  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of bayonet.

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Examples

  • Which is about the strongest closing statement he could make given the fact that Da Mayor basically threatened to basically thrust and fire a bayonetted rifle into his anus.

    Mayor Daley points gun at reporter. | RedState 2010

  • If you were in Gettysburg and your gun didn't fire for some reason while cannons were going off, people were being bayonetted and screaming their last dying breath, shots were going off in your ear and everywhere else, and thousands of wounded, dying, and dead soldiers were surrounding you all the while fully expecting to catch a mini - ball in your face would you realize you hadn't even shot?

    Amateur Hour 2008

  • Mrs Courtney was dead in her chair, shot and bayonetted, with her head buried in the cushions, and when I looked beyond I vomited on the spot - her three children were there as well.

    Fiancée 2010

  • For God's sake, he was bayonetted in the shoulder, groin, suffered two broken arms while serving our country ... and went on to endure the the punishment of the North Vietnamese.

    Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008

  • Furthermore, I would like to chat to you about atheism in a fox-hole as you are about to be bayonetted to death or as you lie dying from cancer on your death-bed.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • I wear around my neck a safety charm given to me in 2004 by a woman named Helema, who was wearing it when her village was attacked, when her baby son was torn from her arms, and bayonetted before her eyes.

    CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2009 2009

  • It is certain that the anthropoid ape is lustfully excited by the presence of women and I have related how at Cairo (1856) a huge cynocephalus would have raped a girl had it not been bayonetted.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • If someone spends several years in a POW camp being beaten, tortured, starved, threatened with death, having bones broken and never set, having their groins bayonetted and never treated, having their teeth knocked out....then they have the right to talk about that experience, should they survive, all that they want.

    How stupid is it for Obama supporters to question the truth of McCain's "cross in the dirt" story? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Taking McCain's experience as an example, he was first beaten and bayonetted by an angry mob.

    "It would be absurd to say that you can’t stick something under the fingernails, smack them in the face." Ann Althouse 2008

  • The Canadian nurse in charge of an adjacent Mission Hospital was observed bravely to make seven trips under fire into the crowded area across the avenue to treat persons shot down or bayonetted, and once as she supervised the movement of a wounded man into the hospital the bearers with her were fired upon.

    Formosa Betrayed and Kerr's Original Memo Michael Turton 2007

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