kill in English dictionary

  • kill

    Meanings and definitions of "kill"

    • (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
    • (transitive, fiction) To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).
    • (transitive) To render inoperative.
    • (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void.
    • (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
    • (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion.
    • (transitive) To use up or to waste.
    • (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
    • (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
    • (transitive) To force a company out of business.
    • (transitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
    • (figuratively, informal, hyperbole) To punish severely.
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    • A creek; a body of water.
    • The act of killing.
    • Specifically, the death blow.
    • The result of killing; that which has been killed.
    • (to) kill
    • noun
      A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
    • noun
      A kiln.
    • noun
      The act of killing.
    • noun
      Specifically, the death blow.
    • noun
      The result of killing; that which has been killed.
    • noun
      (volleyball)
      The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To render inoperative.
    • verb
      (transitive, figuratively)
      To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
    • verb
      (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic)
      To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
    • verb
      (transitive, figuratively)
      To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To use up or to waste.
    • verb
      (transitive, figuratively, informal)
      To exert an overwhelming effect on.
    • verb
      (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic)
      To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To force a company out of business.
    • verb
      (intransitive, informal)
      To produce intense pain.
    • verb
      (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive)
      To punish severely.
    • verb
      (transitive, sports)
      To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
    • verb
      to succeed with an audience, especially in comedy
    • verb
      (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal)
      To cause to assume the value zero.
    • verb
      (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive)
      To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
    • act of killing
    • death blow
    • result of killing
    • put to death
    • to render inoperative
    • render void
    • waste
    • An animal or person that another animal or person has put to death, often for the purposes of eating it.
    • To purposely end the life of another human being.
    • To deliberately and purposely end the life of a political, public or other significant figure, usually publically.
    • To be in the process of putting to death/ending a life.
    • To begin, to be in the process of and then to finish putting to death/ending a life.
    • bring down (a bird)
    • To put to death; to end a life.
    • noun
      the act of terminating a life
    • noun
      the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
    • noun
      the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"
    • verb
      be fatal; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"
    • verb
      be the source of great pain for; "These new shoes are killing me!"
    • verb
      cause the death of, without intention; "She was killed in the collision of three cars"
    • verb
      cause to cease operating; "kill the engine"
    • verb
      cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
    • verb
      deprive of life; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
    • verb
      destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
    • verb
      drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"
    • verb
      end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
    • verb
      hit with great force; "He killed the ball"
    • verb
      hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; "She killed the ball"
    • verb
      mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"
    • verb
      overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"
    • verb
      thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
    • verb
      tire out completely; "The daily stress of her work is killing her"

    Synonyms of "kill" in English dictionary

    beat, ending, tucker out are the top synonyms of "kill" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of kill

    • kill, killed, killed, kills, killing
    • kill ( third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)
    • kill ( plural  kills)
    • kill (plural kills)
    • kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)
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