Kill

Quick meaning: Kill is a verb meaning (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

Meaning

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To render inoperative.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
3. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
4. (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
6. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
7. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.

Example Sentences

Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.

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.

Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!

Word Forms

• kills
• killing
• killed
• killest
• killedst
• killeth

Synonyms for kill

Depending on context, synonyms include assassinate, bump off, dispatch, drill, ice, knock off.

Antonyms for kill

Common opposites include save, rescue, resurrect, revive, raise, reanimate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include obliterate, wipe out, down, defeat, exterminate, annihilate.

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