kill
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(noun) the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission" |
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Related Words: destruction, devastation |
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(verb) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods" |
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Related Words: destroy |
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(verb) cause to cease operating; "kill the engine" |
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Related Words: cut, switch off, turn off, turn out |
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(verb) tire out completely; "The daily stress of her work is killing her" |
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(verb) mark for deletion or rule out; "kill these lines in the President's speech" |
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Synonyms: obliterate, wipe out |
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Related Words: take away, take out |
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(verb) cause to die; put to death; "This man has killed several people when he tried to rob a bank" |
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Related Words: annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, brain, bump off, butcher, carry off, decapitate, decimate, destroy, dismember, dispatch, do in, drown, eliminate, eradicate, erase, execute, exterminate, extinguish, hit, impale, kill off, knock off, lapidate, liquidate, lynch, martyr, massacre, mow down, murder, overlay, overlie, pip, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, put to sleep, remove, saber, sabre, sacrifice, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, stake, stone, strangle, strangulate, suffocate, take off, throttle, tomahawk, waste, wipe out |
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(verb) deprive of life; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa" |
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(verb) hit with great force, in sports; "He killed the ball" |
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Related Words: hit |
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(verb) hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; "She killed the ball" |
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Related Words: hit |
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(verb) overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!" |
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Related Words: overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
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(verb) be the source of great pain for; "These new shoes are killing me!" |
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Related Words: ache, hurt, suffer |
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(verb) thwart the passage of; "kill a motion" |
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Synonyms: defeat, vote down, vote out |
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Related Words: blackball, negative, veto |
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(verb) be fatal; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills" |
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Related Words: be |
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(noun) the act of terminating a life |
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Synonyms: killing, putting to death |
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Related Words: asphyxiation, beheading, conclusion, coup de grace, death, deathblow, decapitation, despatch, dispatch, electrocution, ending, euthanasia, fell, genocide, homicide, immolation, lynching, manslaughter, mass murder, massacre, mercy killing, murder, poisoning, race murder, racial extermination, regicide, ritual killing, sacrifice, self-annihilation, self-destruction, shooting, slaughter, slaying, suffocation, suicide, termination |
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(verb) end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!" |
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Synonyms: stamp out |
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Related Words: end, terminate |
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(verb) drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night" |
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Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, pour down, toss off |
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Related Words: drink, imbibe |
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