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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.
by
Preposition
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near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
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at some time before (the given time).
Be back by ten o'clock!
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if something is done by somebody, it is done through their action
The matter was decided by the chairman.
The boat was swamped by the water.
He was protected by his body armour.
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if something is created by somebody, they are the creator, author, etc.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare.
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shows how someone does something
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
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using the rules or logic of.
I sorted the items by category.
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with a change of. In this case, by shows how much something has changed.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
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shows how slowly, or how quickly, someone does something (used in the form "X by X" or "by Xs")
We went through the book page by page.
We crawled forward by inches.
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If you multiply mathx/math by mathy/math, you multiply mathx/math × mathy/math.
Five multiplied by seven is 35.
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If you divide mathx/math by mathy/math, you find how many mathy/maths are in mathx/math.
35 divided by seven is five.
inch
Noun
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A unit of length that is equal to 2.54 centimetres; there are 12 inches in a foot.
My pencil is six inches long.
inch
Verb
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To move very slowly in a direction.
Fearful of falling, he inched along the window ledge.