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noun
1.
the act of a person or thing that kills.
2.
the total game killed on a hunt.
3.
a quick and unusually large profit or financial gain: a killing in the stock market.
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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.
EXPANDto cause (time) to be consumed with seeming rapidity or with a minimum of boredom, especially 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.
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.
COLLAPSEIce 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 phrase24.
the act of killing, especially 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, especially an enemy aircraft.
28.
EXPANDthe target so hit or, especially, destroyed.
29.
COLLAPSESports. kill shot.
30.
Idiomkill off,
a.
to destroy completely; kill, especially 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.
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; Middle English cullen, killen to strike, beat, kill, Old English *cyllan; cognate with dialectal German küllen (Westphalian). See quell
1175–1225; Middle English cullen, killen to strike, beat, kill, Old English *cyllan; cognate with dialectal German küllen (Westphalian). See quell
Related forms
kill·a·ble, adjective
self-killed, adjective
un·killed, 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.
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Word Origin & History
kill
"stream," 1639, Amer.Eng., from Du. kil, from M.Du. kille "riverbed," especially in place names (e.g. Schuylkill). A common Gmc. word, the O.N. form, kill, meant "bay, gulf" and gave its name to Kiel Fjord on the German Baltic coast and thence to Kiel, the port city founded there in 1240.
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