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Tusk (Verb)

Remove the tusks of animals; "tusk an elephant".

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..

The wildlife conservation group came under fire for proposing to tusk every elephant in the reserve to reduce poaching.
Conservationists defended the practice of tusking elephants as a humane way to protect them from ivory hunters.
The decision to no longer tusk rhinos at the sanctuary was widely applauded by animal rights groups.
Activists criticized the zoo for tusking its elephants, claiming it was a cruel and unnecessary procedure.
Ivory smugglers often tusk sleeping or tranquilized elephants to harvest their valuable ivory.

Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The infuriated elephant tusked the intruder with deadly precision.
In a swift motion, the walrus tusked the seal with its long ivory spear.
The rhino lowered its horn, ready to tusk anyone who dared to approach.
A wounded narwhal managed to tusk the scientist with its spiraling tusk.
As a defense mechanism, the warthog would tusk any predator that crossed its path.