spiflicating

Verb

spiflicate (third-person singular simple present spiflicates, present participle spiflicating, simple past and past participle spiflicated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To confound, silence or dumbfound.
2. (dated, transitive) To beat severely.
3. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To stifle, suffocate, kill.
   • So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny1837, Richard Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends
4. (obsolete, transitive) To ruin, destroy.
   • It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase