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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