killing
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(noun) the act of terminating a life |
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Synonyms: kill, 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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(satellite adjective) (informal) very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" |
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Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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(noun) an event that causes someone to die |
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Synonyms: violent death |
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Related Words: fatality, human death |
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(noun) (informal) a very large profit |
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Synonyms: cleanup |
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Related Words: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
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(satellite adjective) having a debilitating effect; "a killing job in the hot sun" |
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Synonyms: draining, exhausting |
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