overlive | (arch.) v.t. to live longer than; to live too long. | |
burke | to discreetly eliminate; to murder, esp. by suffocation, leaving no marks. [after W. Burke, hanged 1829, a practitioner.] | |
torso murder | a murder in which the victim is severed at the torso. | |
fustigate | to criticize severely; to club heavily. [< L /fustigare/ to cudgel to death] | |
immane | (arch.) of vast size; inhumanly cruel. | |
noyade | execution by drowning. |