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kill
Verb
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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.
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To make something not work.
He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
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If you kill a thing, you bring it to an end.
Kill the jokes. Let's get serious.
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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.
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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.
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If something funny kills you it makes you laugh.
Your jokes just kill me.
kill
Noun
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The act of killing.
The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
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The result of killing; the thing that has been killed.
The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
a
Determinative
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A is used when the following word could be any of a certain type.
Compare "A book I saw on the shelf" and "The book I gave you yesterday".
a
Noun
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A is the first letter of the alphabet.
The letter "a" comes before "b".
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In some schools, an A is a very high grade.
Ron got an A on his earth science test.
proposal
Noun
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A proposal is something that someone suggests doing.
That was an interesting proposal.
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A proposal is when you ask someone to marry you.
She finally accepted my proposal last night.
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A proposal is a formal plan to do research, that a school other agency may have to agree to let you do.
My thesis proposal was finally accepts.
We wrote a grant proposal, hoping to get money for our project.