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- pronunciation:
- kIl
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb, noun), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
kills, killing, killed |
| definition 1: |
to cause to die.
- synonyms:
- destroy, end, finish, wipe out
- similar words:
- assassinate, blot out, butcher, dispatch, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, liquidate, massacre, murder, remove, slaughter, slay, take, waste
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| definition 2: |
to eliminate or put an end to.
He killed my enthusiasm.- synonyms:
- destroy, eliminate, end, extinguish, terminate
- antonyms:
- stir
- similar words:
- abolish, break, check, demolish, finish, quash, quell, ruin, squelch, stifle, stop, undermine, waste, wreck
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| definition 3: |
to cause to stop functioning or operating.
Kill the engine.- synonyms:
- cease, extinguish, halt, stay, stop
- similar words:
- cut, silence, stifle, terminate, waste
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| definition 4: |
to consume entirely, esp. drink.
She killed the bottle of wine.- synonyms:
- exhaust, finish, use up
- similar words:
- consume, deplete, devour, drain, eat up, empty
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| definition 5: |
to make (time) pass.
I killed time wandering through the park.- synonyms:
- spend, while away
- similar words:
- eat up, fritter, pass, squander, use up, waste
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| definition 6: |
to cause great pain to.
My head was killing me so I took an aspirin.- synonyms:
- hurt, pain
- similar words:
- harm, impair, wound
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| related words: |
annihilate, bag, behead, blight, damn, idle, martyr, poison, shut off, stall, stamp |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to cause something to die.
- similar words:
- destroy
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| definition 2: |
to murder.
- synonyms:
- murder
- similar words:
- destroy
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
the act or process of killing.
The tiger closed in for the kill.- synonyms:
- destruction
- similar words:
- elimination, execution, murder, slaughter
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| definition 2: |
animals that have been killed in a hunt.
We hauled the kill back to camp.- synonyms:
- game
- similar words:
- carcass, killing, prey, quarry, take
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| derivation: |
killer (n.) |
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