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KILL

Definition:

1. [noun] the act of terminating a life
   Synonyms: ing, putting to death
   
   
2. [noun] the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"
   
   
3. [verb] cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
   
   
4. [verb] thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
   Synonyms: shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
   
   
5. [verb] cause the death of, without intention; "She was killed in the collision of three cars"
   
   
6. [verb] end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
   Synonyms: stamp out
   
   
7. [verb] be fatal; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"
   
   
8. [verb] be the source of great pain for; "These new shoes are killing me!"
   
   
9. [verb] overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"
   
   
10. [verb] hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; "She killed the ball"
    
    
11. [verb] hit with great force; "He killed the ball"
    
    
12. [verb] deprive of life; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
    
    
13. [verb] drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
    Synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down
    
    
14. [verb] mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
    Synonyms: obliterate, wipe out
    
    
15. [verb] tire out completely; "The daily stress of her work is killing her"
    
    
16. [verb] cause to cease operating; "kill the engine"
    
    
17. [verb] destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
    
    

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Related Words:

• eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
• decimate
• drown
• massacre, slaughter, mow down
• erase, wipe out
• butcher, slaughter
• poison
• stone, lapidate
• poison
• commit suicide
• dispatch
• zap, vaporize
• sacrifice
• take off
• tomahawk
• destroy
• saber, sabre
• overlie, overlay
• brain
• put away, put to sleep
• neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
• exterminate, kill off
• smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
• strangle, strangulate, throttle
• decapitate, behead
• impale, stake
• dismember
• martyr
• murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove
• assassinate
• execute, put to death
• draw, quarter, draw and quarter
• lynch
• shoot, pip
• electrocute, fry
• electrocute
• strike down
• deathblow, coup de grace
• death
• euthanasia, mercy killing
• homicide
• dispatch, despatch
• fell
• suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
• slaughter
• poisoning
• suffocation, asphyxiation
• sacrifice, ritual killing
• electrocution
• decapitation, beheading
• genocide, race murder, racial extermination

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