English > kill: 18 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of terminating a life. |
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| Synonyms | killing, putting to death |
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| Narrower | death | The act of killing |
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| deathblow, coup de grace | The blow that kills (usually mercifully) |
| decapitation, beheading | killing by cutting off the head |
| dispatch, despatch | killing a person or animal |
| electrocution | killing by electric shock |
| euthanasia, mercy killing | The act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) |
| fell | The act of felling something (as a tree) |
| genocide, race murder, racial extermination | Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
| homicide | The killing of a human being by another human being |
| poisoning | The act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill |
| sacrifice, ritual killing | The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity |
| slaughter | The killing of animals (as for food) |
| suffocation, asphyxiation | killing by depriving of oxygen |
| suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation | The act of killing yourself |
| Broader | termination, ending, conclusion | The act of ending something |
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| Spanish | asesinato, homicidio, matanza, muerte |
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| Catalan | assassinat, homicidi, matança, mort |
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| Verbs | kill | cause to die |
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| kill | cause the death of, without intention |
| kill | deprive of life |
| kill | be fatal |
English > kill: 18 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | Cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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| Model | They want to kill the prisoners |
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| Examples | - "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"
- "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
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| Cause to | die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
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| Entailed by | dress, dress out | kill and prepare for market or consumption |
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| Narrower | assassinate | murder |
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| brain | kill by smashing / smashing / smashing someone's skull |
| butcher, slaughter | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
| commit suicide | kill oneself |
| decapitate, behead, decollate | cut the head of |
| decimate | kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies |
| destroy, put down | put (an animal) to death |
| dismember | separate the limbs from the body |
| dispatch | kill without delay |
| draw, quarter, draw and quarter | Pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him |
| drown | kill by submerging in water |
| electrocute, fry | kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair |
| eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off | kill / kill / kill in large numbers |
| erase, wipe out | Remove from memory or existence |
| execute, put to death | kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment |
| exterminate, kill off | kill en masse |
| impale, stake | kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole |
| lynch | kill without legal sanction |
| martyr | kill as a martyr |
| massacre, slaughter, mow down | kill a large number of people indiscriminately |
| murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove | kill intentionally and with premeditation |
| neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in | Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing |
| overlie, overlay | kill / kill by lying on |
| poison | kill with poison |
| poison | kill / kill by its poison |
| put away, put to sleep | kill gently, as with an injection |
| saber, sabre | kill with a saber |
| sacrifice | kill or destroy |
| shed blood | Kill violently |
| shoot, pip | kill by firing a missile |
| smother, asphyxiate, suffocate | deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing |
| stone, lapidate | kill by throwing stones / stones at |
| strangle, strangulate, throttle | kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air |
| take off | prove fatal |
| tomahawk | kill with a tomahawk |
| zap, vaporize | kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting |
| See also | kill off | kill en masse |
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| Similar to | kill | Cause the death of, without intention |
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| Spanish | abatir, acabar, asesinar, matar |
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| Catalan | assassinar, matar |
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| Adjectives | killable | fit to kill, especially for food |
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| Nouns | kill | the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal |
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| killer | someone who causes the death of a person or animal |
| killer | the causal agent resulting in death |
| killing, kill | the act of terminating a life |
| killing | an event that causes someone to die |
