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    kill
    [kil]
    verb
    kill (verb) · kills (third person present) · killed (past tense) · killed (past participle) · killing (present participle)
    1. cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing):
      "her father was killed in a car crash" · "a robber armed with a shotgun who kills in cold blood"
      • (kill someone or something off)
        get rid of or destroy completely, especially in large numbers:
        "there is every possibility all river life would be killed off for generations"
      • (kill someone off)
        (of a writer) bring about the “death” of a fictional character.
    2. put an end to or cause the failure or defeat of (something):
      "the committee voted to kill the project"
      • stop (a computer program or process).
      • informal
        switch off (a light or engine).
      • informal
        delete (a line, paragraph, or file) from a document or computer.
      • (in soccer or other ball games) make (the ball) stop:
        "after killing the ball with his chest, he brushed past Reeves"
      • tennis
        (in tennis and similar games) hit (the ball) so forcefully that it cannot be returned.
      • neutralize or subdue (an effect or quality):
        "the sauce would kill the taste of the herbs"
      • informal
        consume the entire contents of (a bottle containing an alcoholic drink):
        "I killed a rather good bottle of Fleurie"
    3. informal
      overwhelm (someone) with an emotion:
      "the suspense is killing me"
      • (kill oneself)
        overexert oneself:
        "I killed myself carrying those things home"
      • used hyperbolically to indicate that someone will be extremely angry with (another person):
        "my parents will kill me if they catch me out here"
      • cause pain or anguish to:
        "my feet are killing me"
    4. pass (time, or a specified amount of it), typically while waiting for a particular event:
      "when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill"
    noun
    kill (noun) · kills (plural noun)
    1. an act of killing, especially of one animal by another:
      "a lion has made a kill"
      • an animal or animals killed, either by a hunter or by another animal:
        "the vulture is able to survey the land and locate a fresh kill"
      • informal
        an act of destroying or disabling an enemy aircraft, submarine, tank, etc.:
        "the engagement resulted in fifty-one tank kills"
      • (in tennis and similar games) a very forceful shot that cannot be returned.
    Origin
    Middle English (in the sense ‘strike, beat’, also ‘put to death’): probably of Germanic origin and related to quell. The noun originally denoted a stroke or blow.
    kill
    [kil]
    noun
    US ENGLISH
    kill (noun) · kills (plural noun)
    1. (in place names, especially in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) a stream, creek, or tributary:
      "Kill Van Kull"
    Origin
    mid 17th century: from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille ‘riverbed, channel’.
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    verb
    1. cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing):
      murder
      do away with
      make away with
      assassinate
      eliminate
      terminate
      dispatch
      finish off
      execute
      slaughter
      butcher
      massacre
      wipe out
      destroy
      annihilate
      erase
      eradicate
      exterminate
      extirpate
      decimate
      mow down
      shoot down
      cut down
      put down
      slay
      cause the death of
      take/end the life of
      do to death
      put to death
      cut to pieces
      put to sleep
      • put an end to or cause the failure or defeat of (something):
        destroy
        put an end to
        end
        extinguish
        dash
        quell
        quash
        ruin
        wreck
        shatter
        smash
        crush
        scotch
        stop
        block
        frustrate
        thwart
        put a stop to
        prevent
        defeat
        derail
        veto
        reject
        throw out
        overrule
        overturn
        disallow
        bring to an end
        be the end of
        vote down
        rule against
        Opposite:
        facilitate
        pass
        accept
      • overwhelm (someone) with an emotion:
        overwhelm
        take someone's breath away
        shake
        move
        stir
        stun
        amaze
        astonish
        stagger
        dumbfound
        leave speechless
      • pass (time, or a specified amount of it), typically while waiting for a particular event:
        use up
        fill up
        fill in
        fill
        occupy
        beguile
        pass
        spend
        expend
        waste
        while away
        fritter away
      noun
      1. an act of killing, especially of one animal by another:
        death blow
        killing
        dispatch
        conclusion
        ending
        finish
        end
        climax
        coup de grâce
        act of killing

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