kill
IPA: kˈɪɫ
noun
- The act of killing.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (military, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- A surname.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln [An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.]
verb
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
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Examples of "kill" in Sentences
- He was killed by brigands.
- Killing a martin is illegal.
- But the indecision is killing me.
- It is the smoke that kills, not the nicotine.
- Extrajudicial killing implies action outside the law.
- Boar kills the head pirate and is killed in the process.
- The Gibraltar inquest determined that the killing was lawful.
- The captor kills the MP, and is in turn killed by the police.
- That the killings were illegal and premeditated is beyond doubt.
- The coachman and footman killed him to claim they had killed the dragon.
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