kill
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
Inflected forms:
form: kills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: killing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: kill
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: kill
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: kill
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: killest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: killedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: kills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: killeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: kill
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: kill
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: kill
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: killing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: killed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: k1ll
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: kills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: k1ll
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
A Troope of Horſe with Felt: Ile put't in proofe, / And when I haue ſtolne vpon theſe Son in Lawes, / Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.
Stephano: Monſter, I will kill this man : his daughter and I will be King and Queene, ſave our Graces : and Trinculo and thy ſelfe ſhall be Vice-royes : […]
Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.
Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!
As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.
After all, improving road safety has become a widely endorsed cause because nobody wants to kill, or be killed, in a road accident.
In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”
gloss: To render inoperative.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
He killed the motor.
Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.
Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter?
Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.
gloss: To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The editor decided to kill the story.
The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
He closed the boot, walked round to the kerbside and bent to peer into the car's interior, his face pressed to the passenger window, his hands shading his eyes to kill the reflection.
gloss: To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
pos: verb
tags: excessive
figuratively
transitive
examples: That night, she was dressed to kill.
That joke always kills me.
He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me.
gloss: To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
pos: verb
tags: excessive
figuratively
intransitive
transitive
examples: These tight shoes are killing my feet.
You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
two laps into our first walk, my dad needed to sit down. His back and legs were killing him. "You'll be okay," I assured him. "You just need to shake off the rust."
I gave him a couple of Advil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track.
gloss: To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
And I really don't think you get it now
No, I really don't think you get it now
It's killing me, I admit it now
Congratulations, you tore my heart out
Congratulations
gloss: To use up or to waste.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm just doing this to kill time.
Except for the shirt, which he’d worn, and the check, which he’d cashed, and the bottle of port, which he’d killed in bed on Christmas night, the gifts from his family were still on the floor of his bedroom.
gloss: To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
informal
transitive
examples: Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate.
The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
gloss: To force a company out of business.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To punish severely.
pos: verb
tags: excessive
figuratively
informal
transitive
examples: My parents are going to kill me!
"Father will kill us for this."
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
gloss: To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the ball was delivered deep into St Kilda's forward line by Billings, Bontempelli had position on the goal line, with a pack forming in front of him. He decided to fly but didn't kill the ball, leaving it to spill where he had been positioned moments earlier. Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.
gloss: To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
pos: verb
examples: When comics fail, they "die"; when they succeed, they "kill."
You really killed it at the Comedy Store last night.
gloss: To cause to assume the value zero.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: To deadmelt.
pos: verb
gloss: To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: I felt on her big fat fanny
Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
gloss: To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
pos: verb
tags: informal
reflexive
examples: Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.
gloss: The act of killing.
pos: noun
examples: The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
The blonde women were in a frenzy of excitement, their faces transformed from dull moronity to living evil; they shouted like wild animals at the kill.
gloss: Specifically, the death blow.
pos: noun
examples: The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
gloss: The result of killing; that which has been killed.
pos: noun
examples: The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.
gloss: An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: confirmed kills
A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.
gloss: The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
pos: noun
examples: As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
Synonyms: bag
baptize
bereave of life
blight
bring down
bury
cack
compromised to a permanent end
croak
crush
dash
dead
demolish
destroy
dispose of
do
do in
dust
eliminate
end
eradicate
ex
exterminate
finish
finish off
flatten
grease
lay waste to
make away with
merc
mortify
neutralize
obliterate
off
pay off
pick off
polish off
pop off
punch someone's ticket
put an end to
put down
put someone out of their misery
put six feet under
put to sleep
ravage
ruin
scotch
scupper
scuttle
send to eternity
send to hell
send to the grave
send to the great beyond
send to the next life
shut up
slime out
smash
smite
snuff
squash
stiff
stop someone's clock
take
terminate
terminate with extreme prejudice
top off
torpedo
take care of
take down
take out
waste
wax
wet
wipe out
wreck
Antonyms: save
rescue
resurrect
revive
raise
reanimate
reawaken
requicken
revivify
raise from the dead
vitalise
vivificate
vivify
give birth
birth
germinate
spawn
whelp
Related words: die
killer
killing
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: спирам
roman: spiram
lang: Danish
word: tilintetgøre
lang: Finnish
word: tuhota
lang: Finnish
word: tappaa
lang: Finnish
word: raakata
lang: French
word: mettre fin
lang: German
word: zunichte machen
lang: German
word: streichen
lang: Greek
word: σκοτώνω
roman: skotóno
lang: Italian
word: sopprimere
lang: Italian
word: annullare
lang: Lao
word: ຂ້າ
roman: khā
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tilintetgjøre
lang: Portuguese
word: acabar com
lang: Russian
word: ликвиди́ровать
roman: likvidírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: отменя́ть
roman: otmenjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: отмени́ть
roman: otmenítʹ
lang: Russian
word: прекраща́ть
roman: prekraščátʹ
lang: Russian
word: прекрати́ть
roman: prekratítʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ùbiti
lang: Slovak
word: zabiť
lang: Slovak
word: zastaviť
lang: Swedish
word: eliminera
lang: Swedish
word: förinta
lang: Swedish
word: förstöra
lang: Thai
word: ฆ่า
roman: kâa