kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭl
ipa: /kɪl/
ipa: [kʰɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [kʰɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [kʰɪʊ̯]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: kills
Senses: examples: text: This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes, dishes.
ref: 1878, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain from Pre-historic Times Down to the Present Day, page 39:
text: The stack of one of the pottery kills is still a visible land mark of this once thriving industry.
ref: 1945, Arthur Edwin James, The Potters and Potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania, page 34:
text: A funerary ceremony comparable to that reported from Kolomoki site is indicated, though no "pottery kill” was located.
ref: 1951, Bulletin - Eastern States Archeological Federation, page 11:
text: We may indeed assume that cracked and broken ware was discarded in the immediate vicinity of the pottery kills, that is, if it was not thrown in to the Krka.
ref: 2000, Argo - Volume 43, Issue 1, page 59:
text: Admonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a kill, she must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”
ref: 2015, Kirilka Stavreva, Words Like Daggers, page 77:
glosses: Alternative form of kiln.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the noun or verb
word: all-kill
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word: autokill
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word: bottom kill
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word: buzzkill
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word: care killed a cat
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word: care killed the cat
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word: catch and kill
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word: crack kills
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word: crowd-kill
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word: curiosity killed the cat
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word: double kill
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word: dressed to kill
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word: dress to kill
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word: drill and kill
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word: eat what you kill
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word: fill or kill
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word: fishkill
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word: fish kill
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word: fit to kill
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word: giant-killing
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word: go for the kill
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word: hard kill
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word: hit-to-kill
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word: homekill
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word: if looks could kill
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word: I kill you later
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word: in for the kill
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word: kill0r
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word: killability
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word: killable
sense: terms derived from the noun or verb
word: Killadelphia
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word: Killary
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word: killbit
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word: kill bit
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word: killboard
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word: killbot
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word: killbox
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word: kill box
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word: killbuck
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word: kill-buck
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word: killcalf
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word: kill-calf
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word: kill chain
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word: kill cord
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word: kill-courtesy
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word: kill-cow
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word: killcow
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word: killcrop
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word: kill-death ratio
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word: kill-deer
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word: kill-devil
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word: kill devil
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word: Kill Devil Hills
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word: killed in action
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word: killee
sense: terms derived from the noun or verb
word: killer
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word: kill fee
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word: killfie
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word: kill file
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word: killfilter
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word: kill for
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word: kill house
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word: killing
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word: killing field
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word: killing floor
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word: killing spree
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word: killing time
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word: kill it
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word: kill it with fire
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word: killjoy
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word: kill-joy
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word: kill kit
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word: kill me
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word: kill-me-quick
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word: kill-off
sense: terms derived from the noun or verb
word: kill off
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word: killographic
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word: killology
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word: kill one's darlings
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word: kill oneself
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word: kill or be killed
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word: kill-priest
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word: killsat
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word: kill sat
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word: kill screen
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word: kill shelter
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word: kill shot
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word: killshot
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word: kill someone dead
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word: killsprite
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word: kill steal
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word: kill stealer
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word: killstreak
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word: kill switch
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word: kill team
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word: kill-the-beggar
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word: kill the fatted calf
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word: kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
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word: kill the messenger
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word: kill the rabbit
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word: kill-time
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word: kill time
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word: kill-to-death ratio
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word: kill trees
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word: kill two birds with one shot
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word: kill two birds with one stone
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word: kill with kindness
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word: kill-worthy
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word: killworthy
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word: kill your heroes
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word: kill your idols
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word: kill zone
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word: kilt
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word: lambkill
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word: marry fuck kill
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word: mercy-killing
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word: mercy killing
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word: no-kill shelter
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word: non-killing
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word: one turn kill
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word: outkill
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word: overkill
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word: penalty kill
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word: permakill
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word: photo kill
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word: rekill
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word: roadkill
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word: seckill
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word: self-kill
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word: self-killed
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word: self-killing
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word: serial kill
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word: soft kill
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word: spawn-kill
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word: spawn kill
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word: spawnkill
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word: stack-upon-the-kill
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word: stack-upo'-the-kill
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word: static kill
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word: surplus killing
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word: teamkill
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word: that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger
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word: time to kill
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word: top kill
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word: twin killing
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word: underkill
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word: unkill
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word: vokills
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word: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
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word: window-kill
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word: winter-kill
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word: winter kill
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word: winterkill
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word: winter-killed
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word: would it kill someone
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word: you're killing me, Smalls