Kill

Words related to killing someone: to cause someone to die.

• What general words refer to killing someone?
  kill murder assassinate bump off do away with finish someone off take someone's life dispatch dispose finish eliminate liquidate commit murder waste zap slay snuff send to Davy Jones locker lynch silence terminate
• What words describe the manner of killing someone?
  shoot gun down blow someone away stab stab someone to death butcher behead decapitate beat someone to death asphyxiate choke garrote strangle suffocate throttle smother stifle crucify drown electrocute hang hanging poison stone starve
• What words refer to the act of killing someone?
  murder (n) homicide killing assassination foul play capital crime beheading bloodshed butchery crucifixion decapitation electrocution fratricide immolation infanticide liquidation manslaughter martyrdom matricide patricide regicide shooting slaying strangulation smothering suffocation terrorism
• What words refer to the government killing someone because they committed a crime?
  execute put someone to death sentence someone to death capital punishment the death penalty capital offence capital crime punishable by death execution condemned be on death row
• What words refer to killing many people?
  massacre slaughter exterminate annihilate wipe out bloody
• What words refer to the killing of many people?
  massacre (n) slaughter carnage genocide mass murder ethnic cleansing annihilation blood-bath extermination holocaust pogrom
• What words refer to killing yourself?
  kill yourself commit suicide take your own life end it all suicide suicidal be a suicide do away with yourself
• What words refer to trying to kill someone?
  attempted murder attempt on someone's life
• What words refer to someone who kills another person?
  murderer killer assassin hitman slayer executioner hangman liquidator murderess slaughterer slayer terrorist strangler
• What words describe someone who wants to kill someone?
  homicidal murderous
• What words refer to the person who was killed?
  martyr murdered man/woman victim fatality
• What words refer to a person killed in war?
  killed in action casualty casualty of war civilian casualty collateral damage
• What words refer to something used to kill someone?
  murder weapon
• What words describe something that can kill someone?
  fatal killer mortal lethal deadly poisonous toxic
• What words refer to something such as an accident or disease killing someone?
  kill kill off cause death be a killer destroy decimate wipe out
• What words refer to doing something that might result in your death?
  risk your life
• What words refer to doing something that results in your death?
  cost you your life
• What words refer to killing an animal?
  slaughter destroy put down put away put something out of it misery