GR translation: syringe and spike

[GK]

It is a verb. A phrasal verb: "to spike away", meaning to inject repeatedly.

On 25-Jun-22 7:30 PM, Mike Jing wrote:
> V47.28-32, P48.21-25   Kevin Spectro will take his syringe and spike away a
> dozen times tonight, into the dark, to sedate Fox (his generic term for any
> patient—run three times around the building without thinking of a fox and
> you can cure anything).
>
> Here "spike" refers to the hypodermic needle, is that correct?
>
> It seems obvious now, but I misread it as a verb for a long time. The word
> "away" somehow threw me off.
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