salvage
v.— «According to the task force report, 1,082 Filipinos were “extra-legally executed or salvaged (a euphemism for assassinations)” between 1975 and 1983. During the same period, 266 others “disappeared.”» —“Church leads way as Filipinos urge political reforms” Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) Sept. 22, 1983. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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