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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.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
time
Noun
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Time is what we measure with a clock.
"What time do you finish work?" "At four o'clock (4:00)."
I don't have time to talk to you right now. Can we do it later?
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If you do something one time, you do it once.
time
Verb
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If you time something, you measure how long it takes in seconds, minutes, hours, etc.
Take out your watch and time yourself during the test.