Killing

/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal..

Definitions by Sense

1. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
2. (dated, idiomatic) Devastatingly attractive.
3. (informal, idiomatic) That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
4. The act of killing.
5. An instance of someone being killed.
6. (informal, usually as make a killing) A large amount of money.
7. present participle and gerund of kill

Example Sentences

Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost.

He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]

Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.

In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing.

The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.

A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.

But the split-screen nature of this moment in his presidency was underscored when Mr. Trump devoted the first nine minutes of his speech to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests and riots unfolding in cities across the country.

A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.

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