spiflicate verb4 •(old-fashioned) To beat severely. •(slang, no longer used) To stifle, suffocate, kill.So out with your whinger at once, and scrag Jane while I spiflicate Johnny — 1837 •(no longer used) To ruin, destroy.It completely busts up and spifflicates the medical evidence — 1932 •(no longer used) To confound, silence or dumbfound. formsspiflicated · spiflicating · spiflicates