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killing

A lot of money. He made a killing on the stock market.

killing

the act of terminating a life an event that causes someone to die a very large profit (= sidesplitting) very funny a killing joke sidesplitting antics

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After killing Tom, Mary escaped through the window.
Tom hates killing of animals.
People, stop killing each other.
Weapons are means used for killing.
Stop killing animals, people.
Will Soleimani killing spark war?
Tom jumped out of a tenth-story window, killing himself.
Tom fell out of a tenth-story window, killing himself.
A time bomb went off in the airport killing thirteen people.
The man attacked her with the intention of killing her.
This job is killing me.
Desktop publishing lets you produce books quickly and cheaply. It's like killing two birds with one stone.
Some people are killing time relaxing on park benches.
My back is killing me.
I'm killing time.
You are killing me slowly.
I abhor killing animals.
He is just killing time.
Killing is forbidden; every murderer is punished, unless he has killed accompanied by many men and to the sound of trumpets.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
She was on the verge of killing herself.
The bus fell off the cliff, killing all 10 aboard.
The volcano erupted suddenly, killing many people.
I've got a toothache. The pain is killing me.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Movie subtitles

How could they possibly sit on the sidelines with news coming in that their archenemies, the Spaniards, were making a killing overseas?
We can't go killing each other.
He's killing Dreyfuss in the polls.
Oh, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, you're killing me. You.
An unlawful killing.
But there is no law against the killing of an animal.
What would you gain, by killing me off, Mr Helius?
He's killing her.
The suspense is killing me.
We're only killing time with this circus.
Come on, you're killing them tonight.
A killing in 166.
Killing? Who?
No sleep for two nights, here all day, and now this killing at the hotel.
I spent 20 years of my life fighting, killing and destroying.
You're not seriously thinking of killing yourself, are you?
If you take that away, it's no different than killing her.
And just who accuses me of killing Thorpe?
He's killing her. Mina!
The beast of the jungle killing just for his existence is called savage.
The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized.
A man-killing contraption the natives use.
Jane's got a theory that you were wrong in killing that ape.
Preston Sturges contributed a script that had a doctor treating his maniacal assistant with an invisibility drug, following which the two journey to Russia to avenge the killing of the scientist's relatives during the revolution.
It must be killing him. Now his whole crew is like a chicken with one of its wings cut off.
Is he in charge of killing me?
Killing it!
Mr. Raynal, they're killing your son!
All that's worrying me is my neck is killing me.
This stupid killing.
Well, soon as I make my killing, I'll send for you, and that won't be long.

News and current affairs

Drones - unmanned aircraft that are remotely steered - have proven to be effective in killing a significant number of terrorists, including many of the most important leaders.
AIDS was killing more than two million people each year, and spreading rapidly.
The United States seems to reel from one mass gun killing to another - roughly one a month this year alone.
Politkovskaya's is the third politically tinged killing in three weeks.
The fact that Russia's Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, took over the investigation into Politkovskaya's killing, as he did with the murder of Kozlov, doesn't inspire hope, as such senior level involvement would in any real democracy.
I am not accusing Putin's government of the contract killing of Politkovskaya.
Not since Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination has a murder shaken Belgrade as much as the killing of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic.
Worldwide broadcasts of the beating and killing of protesters have undermined the regime's religious credentials.
Its comeback takes the classical form of attacks on individuals, like the recent killing of a young Jew in France, or of disfiguring symbolic places, like cemeteries and synagogues.
CAMBRIDGE - There is no magic Keynesian bullet for the eurozone's woes. But the spectacularly muddle-headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising.
NEW YORK - The killing of Osama bin Laden by United States special forces constitutes a significant victory over global terrorism.
Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state-sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another.
Furthermore, killing murderers prevents recidivism: if released from prison, they might kill again.
The third argument is also utilitarian, although of a lower quality: the state saves money by killing murderers instead of keeping them in prison for life at the expense of the community.
As a result of this policy shift - and the recent killing of a South Korean tourist in North Korea's Kumgang Mountains - official dialogue between North and South has stopped for the past several months.
Broad agreement is needed that any intentional killing of civilians and noncombatants is unacceptable, and that its perpetrators and supporters must be punished.
In October 1993, the killing by members of the army of Melchior Ndadaye, the first civilian, Hutu, non-Bururi, and democratically elected president provoked a bloody reaction by the Hutu.
Likewise, regime change in Libya aided the rise of Al Qaeda-linked militants, leading to the killing in Benghazi of the US ambassador.
By supporting Islamist rulers, the US is contributing to a trend evident from the Maghreb to the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan - Muslims killing Muslims.
Rather, wars are increasingly fought remotely, with drones - or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - doing the killing.
Killing is just a part of the job, to be followed by bowling, perhaps, or a quiet evening at home.
The US and the world community should also make clear - as we did in Bosnia and Kosovo - that we are taking a united stand against a thug who is killing Muslims.
But, at least until now, the world has paid almost no attention to war crimes and crimes against humanity comparable in their savagery to any of these: the killing fields of Sri Lanka in 2009.
The environmental disaster destroying seaside communities around the Gulf of Mexico and killing off marine life is a globally important tragedy.
In Darfur, he managed to get African Union peacekeepers into Sudan's killing zone in his first year in office through intensive behind-the-scenes diplomacy.

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