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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.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
wound
Noun
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A wound is a cut in skin with pain and blood, a burn, or other similar mark on someone's body.
I dropped a knife on my foot, but the wound was minor, so I didn't need to go to the hospital.
wound
Verb 1
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When you wound someone, you cause an injury (a wound) to the person.
The sharp blade wounded the man.