noun

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The act of killing.

example

The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.

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Specifically, the death blow.

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The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.

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The result of killing; that which has been killed.

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The fox dragged its kill back to its den.

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The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.

verb

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To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

example

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

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To render inoperative.

example

He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.

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To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.

example

My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.

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To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.

example

That joke always kills me.

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To cause great pain, discomfort or distress to.

example

These tight shoes are killing my feet.

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To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.

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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.

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To use up or to waste.

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He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."

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To exert an overwhelming effect on.

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Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.

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To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.

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The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.

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To force a company out of business.

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To produce intense pain.

example

You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.

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To punish severely.

example

My parents are going to kill me!

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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.

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To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.

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To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.

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To cause to assume the value zero.

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(IRC) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.

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To deadmelt.

noun

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(north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.

example

Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

noun

definition

A kiln.

Examples of kills in a Sentence

She just kills things smaller than she is.

You're going to make it work if it kills you – and it almost did.

They say he managed nearly twenty kills before they caught him.

The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.

Wynn's information – pleasure kills – was still an issue.

It isn't the fall that kills you.

I know and it kills me but that's the way it is.

If she kills you, nothing is lost.

The hand rub we provide kills 99.9% of common germs.

It kills all root pests.

Thus the serum of the white rat, which is immune to anthrax, kills the bacillus; whereas the serum of the guinea-pig, which is susceptible, has no such effect.

Sweetheart, you have to let it go before it kills you.

Twice and it kills.

You can stay here as my prisoner until Death gets what she wants and one of us kills you.

This wood is in great part already dead substance, but the mycelium gradually invades the vessels occupied with the transmission of water up the trunk, cuts off the current, and so kills the tree; in other cases such Fungi attack the roots, and so induce rot and starvation of oxygen, resulting in fouling.

Force kills argument and drives doubt below the smooth surface of a nominal conformity.

After the victory Oebares kills Astyages against the will of Cyrus, and afterwards kills himself to evade the wrath of Cyrus.

Shortly after he kills Culann, the smith's hound, a huge watch-dog.

Flowering and fruiting go on continually, although in diminishing degree, until the advent of frost, which kills the flowers and young bolls and so puts an end to the production of cotton for the season.

It feeds chiefly on fruit and roots, but kills sheep, goats, deer, ponies and cattle, and sometimes devours carrion.

The drug kills by paralysing the nervous arrangements of the heart and respiratioh.

A large lethal dose kills by this action, but the minimum lethal dose by its combined action on the respiration and the heart.

The cruel tyrant kills the babes of Bethlehem, but the Child has been withdrawn by a secret flight into Egypt, whence he presently returns to the family home at Nazareth in Galilee.

Finally the parasitic larva attacks the Osmia, and digging its mandibles into its victim's head kills and eats it, taking from one to two days for the completion of the repast.

Sladen states that a queen belonging to the virginalis form of Bombus terrestris often invades a nest belonging to the lucorum form, kills the rightful queen, andtakespossession of the nest, getting the lucorum workers to rear her young.

Frost kills the plant in all its stages and all its varieties; and the crop does not flourish well if the nights are cool, no matter how favourable the other conditions.

Whoever kills, captures or injures an elephant, or attempts to do so,, without a licence, is punishable by a fine of 500 rupees for the first offence; and a similar fine, together with six months imprisonment, for a second offence.

It attacks and kills the much larger wild buffalo.

The hall is invaded by Grendel's mother, who kills and carries off one of the Danish nobles.

In a vaulted chamber under the waves, he fights with Grendel's mother, and kills her.

Patroclus drives back the Trojans - kills Sarpedon - is himself killed by Hector.

This releases chloric acid, which, being an extremely powerful antiseptic, kills the bacteria to which the ulcers are due.

As soon as they begin to require other food than her milk, she kills for them, teaching them to do so for themselves by practising on small animals, such as deer and young calves or pigs.

He kills his victim by rolling himself round the body till he breaks its ribs, or suffocates it by one irresistible convolution round its throat.

When taken in an overdose paraldehyde kills by producing respiratory failure.

An important element in the story is the connexion of Adonis with the boar, which (according to one version) brings him into the world by splitting with his tusk the bark of the tree into which Smyrna was changed, and finally kills him.

Although we find in the poems of Dubhthach, written in the 5th century and prefixed to the Senchus Mor, the sentences, "Let every one die who kills a human being," and "Every living person that inflicts death shall suffer death," capital punishment did not prevail in Ireland before or after.

In the former the king is offended with his wife, and divorces her; in the Arabian Nights he finds her unfaithful, and kills her.

It kills by its paralysing effect on the motor ganglia of the heart and on the respiratory centre.

I don't give a shit what you believe, Sheriff; just do your job and get this bastard before he rapes and kills that boy!

Darian glared at the confused young man and said, "I promise, Dusty, I'll take care of the girls even after the Black God kills you."

Chances are he kills me or sells me back to Rhyn at some great cost.

The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.

Wynn's information – pleasure kills – was still an issue.

Tell him I clucked my way back to the motel and the fireplace—if you see the bastard before he kills himself!

So I was right in thinking it's better they—or Jonny—kills me, before you destroy our world to get to them.

You're going to make it work if it kills you – and it almost did.

You're married to someone who kills vampires for a living.

The TV campaign was the first national fire prevention television advertising to use the ' Fire Kills ' logo.

Jackals are opportunistic feeders who are equally at home hunting small antelope or scavenging at larger kills.

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