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kill

the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

cause to cease operating; "kill the engine"

tire out completely; "The daily stress of her work is killing her"

mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

cause the death of, without intention; "She was killed in the collision of three cars"

deprive of life; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"

hit with great force; "He killed the ball"

hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; "She killed the ball"

overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"

be the source of great pain for; "These new shoes are killing me!"

thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"

be fatal; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"

Synonyms:

• KO,
• abbreviate,
• abridge,
• absorb,
• adolescent stream,
• amuse,
• annihilate,
• arroyo,
• asphyxiate,
• assassinate,
• bane,
• beasts of venery,
• beck,
• beguile,
• bereave of life,
• big game,
• black out,
• blood,
• bloodletting,
• bloodshed,
• blot out,
• blue-pencil,
• bottle up,
• bourn,
• bowdlerize,
• braided stream,
• braining,
• branch,
• brook,
• brooklet,
• bump off,
• burn,
• butcher,
• call off,
• cancel,
• carry away,
• carry off,
• censor,
• channel,
• chloroform,
• choke,
• choke off,
• clamp down on,
• close,
• complete,
• conclusion,
• constitute,
• consume,
• convulse,
• cork,
• cork up,
• coup de grace,
• crack down on,
• creek,
• crick,
• cross out,
• crush,
• cut,
• cut down,
• cut off,
• cut short,
• damp,
• damp down,
• deaden,
• dealing death,
• death,
• deathblow,
• decimate,
• decree,
• defeat,
• delete,
• delight,
• denouement,
• deprive of life,
• destroy,
• destruction,
• destruction of life,
• devastate,
• dispatch,
• dispose of,
• divert,
• do away with,
• do for,
• do in,
• do to death,
• down,
• drop the curtain,
• drown,
• dull,
• edit,
• edit out,
• eliminate,
• enact,
• enact laws,
• end,
• end off,
• enliven,
• entertain,
• eradicate,
• erase,
• euthanasia,
• execute,
• execution,
• exhaust,
• exhilarate,
• expunge,
• expurgate,
• exterminate,
• extermination,
• extinguish,
• fag out,
• fatigue,
• filibuster,
• fill,
• finalize,
• finish,
• finish off,
• flow of blood,
• flowing stream,
• fluviation,
• fold up,
• fracture one,
• fresh,
• freshet,
• gag,
• game,
• get it over,
• get over with,
• get rid of,
• get the floor,
• get through with,
• gill,
• give the quietus,
• gore,
• have the floor,
• hit,
• hold down,
• hugger-mugger,
• hurt,
• hush,
• hush up,
• hush-hush,
• ice,
• idle,
• immolate,
• immolation,
• jump on,
• kayo,
• keep down,
• keep under,
• kibosh,
• killing,
• knife,
• knock dead,
• knock off,
• knock out,
• lapidation,
• launch into eternity,
• lay low,
• lazy stream,
• legislate,
• liquidate,
• lobby through,
• logroll,
• loosen up,
• lynch,
• make away with,
• martyr,
• martyrdom,
• martyrization,
• martyrize,
• massacre,
• meandering stream,
• mercy killing,
• midchannel,
• midstream,
• millstream,
• moving road,
• muffle,
• murder,
• muzzle,
• navigable river,
• negative,
• neutralize,
• nip,
• nullify,
• obliterate,
• occupy,
• omit,
• ordain,
• pain,
• pass,
• perfect,
• pigeonhole,
• pocket,
• poison,
• poisoning,
• polish off,
• pour water on,
• prey,
• purge,
• put away,
• put down,
• put in force,
• put paid to,
• put through,
• put to death,
• put to sleep,
• quarry,
• quash,
• quell,
• quench,
• race,
• racing stream,
• railroad through,
• raise a laugh,
• raise a smile,
• ravage,
• recreate,
• refresh,
• regale,
• relax,
• remove from life,
• repress,
• rescind,
• ritual killing,
• ritual murder,
• river,
• rivulet,
• roll logs,
• rub out,
• ruin,
• rule against,
• run,
• rundle,
• runlet,
• runnel,
• sacrifice,
• scrag,
• shoot,
• shoot down,
• shooting,
• shush,
• shut,
• shut down,
• shut down on,
• shut off,
• sike,
• silence,
• sit down on,
• sit on,
• slaughter,
• slay,
• slaying,
• smash,
• smother,
• snuff out,
• solace,
• spend,
• spill stream,
• squash,
• squelch,
• stanch,
• starve,
• stifle,
• still,
• stoning,
• strangle,
• stream,
• stream action,
• streamlet,
• strike,
• strike off,
• strike out,
• stultify,
• subdue,
• subterranean river,
• suffocate,
• suppress,
• switch off,
• table,
• take life,
• take off,
• take the floor,
• taking of life,
• termination,
• the hunted,
• throttle,
• tickle,
• tire out,
• titillate,
• to,
• torment,
• torture,
• turn off,
• use up,
• venery,
• veto,
• victim,
• void,
• wadi,
• waste,
• watercourse,
• waterway,
• weary,
• while away,
• wipe out,
• wow,
• yield the floor,
• zap