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  • verb UK Present participle of bayonet.
  • noun A stabbing with a bayonet.
  • noun Overlap of fracture fragments in a longbone fracture resulting in shortening of the extremity.

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Examples

  • J.B. tumbled forward, and as the officer hacked at his head I saw that the blade was bent at right-angles; he hammered away at the old fellow's skull, and all around was screaming, struggling confusion as the Leathernecks came surging in, bayonetting everything in sight.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • While these two political/military organizations were bayonetting babies and stuffing people into mud huts before setting them on fire, the "do-gooders" pumped all sorts of aid into their war chests.

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

  • Interspersed with the text were pictures of soldiers bayonetting or shooting helpless Indians.

    Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

  • While the thought of men in tri-cornered hats storming an Upper East Side prep school and bayonetting anyone with the last name Waldorf or van der Woodsen is disconcerting at best, that Gossip Girl considers a family living in a Williamsburg loft "middle class" is also cause for concern.

    Jason Notte: Economics of Spoiled Teen Dramas Fundamentally Sound 2008

  • Here's a thought experiment: substitute any one of the things - bones broken, bayonetting, repeated beatings, etc - that we know happened to McCain while he was a POW, and ask if this "artist" would volunteer to have any of those things done to him, and whether or not he'd have an audience to watch it.

    "The Waterboard Thrill Ride" art installation. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Soldiers were seen bayonetting coolies without apparent provocation in front of a Consulate staff residence.

    Formosa Betrayed and Kerr's Original Memo Michael Turton 2007

  • One of the women, Mrs. Charles Costas, burned to death holding her newborn infant in her arms when the National Guard set fire to the union strikers's tent city and then charged it on horseback shooting, rifle-butting, or bayonetting all the people trying to flee the flames.

    SOS The Daily Growler 2006

  • A detailed report published by Zimbabwe's Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace details harrowing accounts of the brutality committed by military squads, including the bayonetting of pregnant women and families being forced to dance on the graves of their dead.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The 260-page document, entitled "Breaking the Silence", contained harrowing accounts of brutality, including the bayonetting of pregnant women and families being forced to dance on the graves of their dead.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Justice and Peace revealed testimony of shocking brutality committed by the military squads, including the bayonetting of pregnant women and families being forced to dance on the graves of their dead.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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