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Meaning kill meaning

What does kill mean?
Definitions in simple English

kill Verb

— When you kill something or someone, you put them to death; you take away life. Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined. — To make something not work. He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting. — If you kill a thing, you bring it to an end. Kill the jokes. Let's get serious. — If something has been killed it has been treated in a very bad way. The rough road killed the tires on my car. The small writing is killing my eyes. My dad is going to kill me when he sees my bad grade. — If something is killing you, it causes pain. If a body part is killing you, it hurts. My headache is killing me. My head is killing me. — If something funny kills you it makes you laugh. Your jokes just kill me.

kill Noun

— The act of killing. The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives. — The result of killing; the thing that has been killed. The fox dragged its kill back to its den.

kill

— verb 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 — noun (= killing) the act of terminating a life — noun the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile the pilot reported two kills during the mission — verb (= shoot down) thwart the passage of kill a motion he shot down the student's proposal — verb (= stamp out) end or extinguish by forceful means Stamp out poverty! — verb destroy a vitally essential quality of or in Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods — verb cause to cease operating kill the engine — verb tire out completely The daily stress of her work is killing her — verb mark for deletion, rub off, or erase kill these lines in the President's speech — verb be the source of great pain for These new shoes are killing me! — verb overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration The comedian was so funny, he was killing me! — verb cause the death of, without intention She was killed in the collision of three cars — verb deprive of life AIDS has killed thousands in Africa — verb hit with great force He killed the ball — verb hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games She killed the ball — verb be fatal cigarettes kill drunken driving kills — verb (= pop, down, drink down) drink down entirely He downed three martinis before dinner She killed a bottle of brandy that night They popped a few beer after work

Synonyms kill synonyms

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murder hurt slay destroy slaughter injure strike assassinate hit massacre execute butcher put to death defeat beat eliminate waste liquidate extinguish crush shoot finish off exterminate do away with dispatch annihilate wound wipe out ruin cut down bump off behead turn off stamp out stab spoil smite shoot down shoot dead obliterate finish fight extirpate do in zap vote down terminate smash ravage put out

Topics kill topics

What do people use kill to talk about?
Person Life Die

Kill
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Butcher, slaughter
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Hunt

Conjugation kill conjugation

How do you conjugate kill?

kill · verb

Examples kill examples

How do I use kill in a sentence?

Simple sentences

To kill two birds with one stone.
I'll kill him.
I'll kill you.
Tom and Mary were plotting to kill Tom's father for the life insurance.
You aren't really going to kill Tom, are you?
Do you want to kill me?
I have come to kill you.
Stand where you are or I'll kill you.
I want to kill Tom before he kills me.
I'll kill it.
You can't kill me.
You can't kill us both.
I'd be unhappy, but I wouldn't kill myself.
I was trying to kill time.
I was looking to kill time.
That way I kill two birds with one stone.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
I strolled along the streets to kill time.
Let's play some video games to kill time.
I would rather kill myself than reconcile myself to my fate.
Romeo, believing that Juliet was dead, decided to kill himself.
That proposal may be a way to kill two birds with one stone, but we also have to be careful not to get greedy and spoil everything.
This bomb can kill many people.
I need some medicine to kill the pain.
How can we kill time?
It will kill two birds with one stone.
This is it. They're going to kill me.

Movie subtitles

Jason sent you here to kill me!
Shut your mouth. I'm going to kill you.
I'll kill you. and ran into the woods.
Are you seriously going to kill me, Curel?
If you are going to interfere, we'll kill you regardless of who you are!
I think he may be planning to kill Euphemia. aren't you?
I don't want to kill them!
You're right. I have to kill the Japanese.
We were ordered to kill all the Japanese here.
Find her and kill her!
Why was Vasco da Gama so clearly hungry for money - hungry enough to kill for it?
Everywhere we go, people keep talking about General Koni, and how he'll kill them.
Even if I kill such a punk like you, I won't be locked in a jail.
If something goes wrong with me, my father will kill you, not Lord Choi.
I have to kill the Japanese.
I have to! I have to find Euphy! Find her and kill her!
Be careful or he'll kill you.
It's fate, not bullets, that kill.
I'll kill you next time.
No one must ever know, otherwise Hadj Hamou will kill my son and I.
You wanted to kill me and almost did.
They'll rape our women, kill our children and the rest of our troops.
Don't kill him!
Kill me now.
But you, swine, I'll kill you tonight.
Aw, my mom's gonna kill me!
A covert department of the CIA, the Special Activities Division has activated a kill contract on you.
Why would they want to kill us?
He kind of becomes this bad-guy figure. Don't kill her.
We find them, we kill them.
Derek is just death and violence and kill.
Derek's outside, waiting for Lydia. Waiting to kill her?
They're here to kill Lydia.
Kill Jackson.
And the idea that she's going out with somebody who, more than likely, would kill her, I think, is what drives her to break them up. Are you having sex with my daughter?
She goes to the extreme with Scott. I mean, she tries to kill him.
Then we kill them.
Isaac breaking out of jail, trying to kill Stiles. this is the first time you see an Alpha interacting with their beta.
You know how to kill him?

News and current affairs

We kill other species not because we must, but because we are too negligent to do otherwise.
Air safety is slightly different, because a crashing plane can kill people on the ground, but the greatest risks by far are borne by the passengers and crew.
But as they hunt down and kill violent domestic extremists, they are quietly tightening the noose around all those who want moderate reform.
This year, malnutrition will kill almost four million people.
They have only recently been recognized as the cause of several infectious diseases, including mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which kill by crowding out healthy brain cells.
Furthermore, killing murderers prevents recidivism: if released from prison, they might kill again.
How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?
It had no chance to learn - and probably never will - that picnic tables and garbage cans are defended by forest rangers with orders to kill.
Once a radical loser is in the mood to kill, any reason will do.
Yes, the existence of religious fanatics eager to kill large numbers of innocent American civilians warrants strong measures in response.
Growth arguments will be advanced to counter strong social and environmental policies: higher gasoline taxes, for example, will kill our nascent auto industry.
Both research teams describe how the use of a chemical inhibitor can kill tumor cells that have either a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene defect causing hereditary breast cancer.
Treating women carrying BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations with PARP inhibitors to kill cancer cells before they grow into tumors is a new and hopeful concept in cancer prevention.
Some may be like parasites that suffer if they kill their host, but others may be indifferent to such effects.
The price of plank cedar in Lahore is incentive enough to corrupt, or kill, any Green Corps men brave enough to stand in their way.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political virtue.
With no military personnel risking their lives, UAVs make it easier to kill, and to justify war operations to the public at home.
Moreover, a human being's reticence to kill is inversely related to the distance between attacker and target.
We need to take concrete steps now so that we are prepared to implement a no-fly zone immediately if Qaddafi starts using his airpower to kill large numbers of civilians.
Perhaps the mere threat of a no-fly zone will keep Qaddafi's pilots from using their helicopters and fighter jets to kill their own people.
A pandemic spread by birds or travelers on jet aircraft could kill more people than perished in World Wars I or II.
In order to kill twelve Americans in an attack on the US Embassy in August 1998, Middle Eastern terrorists killed some two hundred Kenyans in Nairobi.
So it is deemed better to kill a potentially dangerous baby before it is born.
None of us has the right to kill those with whom we disagree.

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