gork
v.— «Mark Roth’s career as a deanimator. As a gorker. Gorking is…well, gorking. You take away some creature’s supply of oxygen, you’re gorking it, man.…Nothing should live in those caves; instead, the caves were full of all sorts of fascinating creatures that tempted spelunkers to go down to see them. And the spelunkers had to be really, really, really careful or else they’d get gorked. They had to wear all sorts of special gear or else they’d get gorked with one breath of hydrogen sulfide. Deanimated with a single breath!» —“The Mad Scientist Bringing Back the Dead…Really.” by Tom Junod Esquire Dec. 2, 2008. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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