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kill
1 [kil]
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. |
| 2. | to destroy; do away with; extinguish: His response killed our hopes. |
| 3. | to destroy or neutralize the active qualities of: to kill an odor. |
| 4. | to spoil the effect of: His extra brushwork killed the painting. |
| 5. | to cause (time) to be consumed with seeming rapidity or with a minimum of boredom, esp. by engaging in some easy activity or amusement of passing interest: I had to kill three hours before plane time. |
| 6. | to spend (time) unprofitably: He killed ten good years on that job. |
| 7. | Informal. to overcome completely or with irresistible effect: That comedian kills me. |
| 8. | to muffle or deaden: This carpet kills the sound of footsteps. |
| 9. | Informal. to cause distress or discomfort to: These new shoes are killing me. |
| 10. | Informal. to tire completely; exhaust: The long hike killed us. |
| 11. | Informal. to consume completely: They killed a bottle of bourbon between them. |
| 12. | to cancel publication of (a word, paragraph, item, etc.), esp. after it has been set in type. |
| 13. | to defeat or veto (a legislative bill, etc.). |
| 14. | Electricity. to render (a circuit) dead. |
| 15. | to stop the operation of (machinery, engines, etc.): He killed the motor and the car stopped. |
| 16. | Tennis. to hit (a ball) with such force that its return is impossible. |
| 17. | Metallurgy.
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| 18. | Ice Hockey. to prevent the opposing team from scoring in the course of (a penalty being served by a teammate or teammates). |
–verb (used without object)
| 19. | to inflict or cause death. |
| 20. | to commit murder. |
| 21. | to be killed. |
| 22. | to overcome completely; produce an irresistible effect: dressed to kill. |
| 23. | Slang. to feel a smarting pain, as from a minor accident; sting: I stubbed my little toe and that really kills. |
–noun
—Verb phrase| 24. | the act of killing, esp. game: The hounds moved in for the kill. |
| 25. | an animal or animals killed. |
| 26. | a number or quantity killed. |
| 27. | an act or instance of hitting or destroying a target, esp. an enemy aircraft. |
| 28. | the target so hit or, esp., destroyed. |
| 29. | Sports. kill shot. |
| 30. | kill off,
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| 31. | kill with kindness, to overdo in one's efforts to be kind: The aunts would kill their nephews and nieces with kindness. |
Origin:
1175–1225; ME cullen, killen to strike, beat, kill, OE *cyllan; c. dial. G küllen (Westphalian). See quell
1175–1225; ME cullen, killen to strike, beat, kill, OE *cyllan; c. dial. G küllen (Westphalian). See quell

Related forms:
kill⋅a⋅ble, adjective
Synonyms:
1. slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate. Kill, execute, murder all mean to deprive of life. Kill is the general word, with no implication of the manner of killing, the agent or cause, or the nature of what is killed (whether human being, animal, or plant): to kill a person. Execute is used with reference to the putting to death of one in accordance with a legal sentence, no matter what the means are: to execute a criminal. Murder is used of killing a human being unlawfully: He murdered him for his money.
1. slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate. Kill, execute, murder all mean to deprive of life. Kill is the general word, with no implication of the manner of killing, the agent or cause, or the nature of what is killed (whether human being, animal, or plant): to kill a person. Execute is used with reference to the putting to death of one in accordance with a legal sentence, no matter what the means are: to execute a criminal. Murder is used of killing a human being unlawfully: He murdered him for his money.
kill shot
–noun Sports.
| a decisive smashing or punching of a ball with the hand or a racquet such that it is virtually unreturnable, as in volleyball, handball, or badminton. |
Also called kill.
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Kill
Kill\, n. A kiln. [Obs.] --Fuller.Kill
Kill\, n. [D. kil.] A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.Kill
Kill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Killed; p. pr. & vb. n. Killing.] [OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill, strike; perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf. Quell), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to kill with the ax.]1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words ! --Shak. 2. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. "To kill thine honor." --Shak. Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares. --Shak. 3. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. --Shak. 4. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid. To kill time, to busy one's self with something which occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without tediousness. Syn: To murder; assassinate; slay; butcher; destroy. -- To Kill, Murder, Assassinate. To kill does not necessarily mean any more than to deprive of life. A man may kill another by accident or in self-defense, without the imputation of guilt. To murder is to kill with malicious forethought and intention. To assassinate is tomurder suddenly and by stealth. The sheriff may kill without murdering; the duelist murders, but does not assassinate his antagonist; the assassin kills and murders.Kill
Kill\, n. 1. The act of killing. "There is none like to me!" says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill. --Kipling. 2. An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey. If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride. --Kipling.
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Language Translation for : kill
Spanish:
matar, asesinar,
German:
töten,
Japanese:
殺す
kill (v.)
c.1205, "to strike, hit, beat, knock." Sense of "to deprive of life" first recorded c.1330. Perhaps from an unrecorded variant of O.E. cwellan "to kill" (see quell), but the earliest sense suggests otherwise. The noun meaning "an act of killing (an animal)" is from 1852. Lawn tennis serve sense is from 1903. The kill "the knockout" is boxing jargon, 1950. Killer in slang sense of "impressive person or thing" first recorded 1937; as an adj., 1979. Killjoy is first recorded 1776; formerly used with other stems (cf. kill-courtesy "boorish person," kill-cow "bully, big man," etc.). Sense in to kill time is from 1728. Killer whale is from 1725. Killing "large profit" is 1888, Amer.Eng. slang. Kill-devil, colloquial for "rum," especially if new or of bad quality, is from 1639.
kill (n.)
"stream," 1639, Amer.Eng., from Du. kil, from M.Du. kille "riverbed," especially in place names.
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Kill
To cancel a trade or order that has been placed, but not filled.
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Why Wall Street can't use simple terms like "cancel" is beyond us.
See also: Fill or Kill Order, Order
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kill
- To halt a trade before sending a confirmation of it.
Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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kill
In addition to the idioms beginning with kill, also see curiosity killed the cat; dressed to kill; fit to kill; in at the death (kill); make a killing.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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