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kill

1  [kil]
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–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.
a. to deoxidize (steel) before teeming into an ingot mold.
b. to eliminate springiness from (wire or the like).
c. to cold-roll (sheet metal) after final heat treatment in order to eliminate distortion.
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
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.
—Verb phrase
30. kill off,
a. to destroy completely; kill, esp. successively or indiscriminately: The invaders killed off all the inhabitants of the town.
b. Informal. to extinguish; eliminate: The bus ride every day kills off all of my energy.
—Idiom
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

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.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Slang Dictionary
kill

  1. tv.
    to be very successful with an audience; to perform very well for an audience. : She really killed them with that last joke.
  2. tv.
    to eat all of something; to drink all (of a bottle) of something. : We finally killed the last of the turkey.
  3. tv.
    to douse a light. : Would you kill the light so they can't see we're home?
  4. tv.
    to stop or terminate something; to quash a story; to stop a story from being printed in a newspaper. : Kill that story. It's got too many errors.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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killed (off)

  1. mod.
    alcohol or drug intoxicated. (Drugs.) : The team went out drinking and came home killed off.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

kill  (n.)
"stream," 1639, Amer.Eng., from Du. kil, from M.Du. kille "riverbed," especially in place names.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

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.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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