Kill

Noun

 * 1) The act of killing.
 * The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
 * 1) Specifically, the death blow.
 * The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
 * 1) The result of killing; that which has been killed.
 * The fox dragged its kill back to its den.

Derived terms

 * in for the kill

Verb

 * 1)  To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
 * Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
 * There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills.
 * 1)  To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).
 * Shakespeare killed Romeo and Juliet for drama.
 * 1)  To render inoperative.
 * He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
 * 1)  To stop, cease, or render void.
 * The editor decided to kill the story.
 * ''The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
 * 1)  To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
 * That night, she was dressed to kill.
 * That joke always kills me.
 * 1)  To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion.
 * 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.
 * 1)  To use up or to waste.
 * I'm just doing this to kill time.
 * 1)  To exert an overwhelming effect on.
 * Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
 * Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
 * 1)  To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
 * The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
 * 1)  To force a company out of business.
 * 2)  To produce intense pain.
 * You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
 * 1)  To punish severely.
 * My parents are going to kill me!

Synonyms

 * assassinate, bump off, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack
 * fritter away, while away
 * break, deactivate, disable, turn off
 * annihilate
 * See also Thesaurus:kill

Noun

 * 1) A creek; a body of water.

Adverbs for Kill
incessantly; simultaneously;  accidentally; designedly; uselessly; intentionally; instantly; wantonly; ferociously; brutally; pitilessly; insanely; savagely; basely; sportively.

Thesaurus
KO, abbreviate, abridge, absorb, adolescent stream, amuse, annihilate, arroyo, asphyxiate, assassinate, bane, beasts of venery, beck, beguile, bereave of life, big game, black out, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, blot out, blue-pencil, bottle up, bourn, bowdlerize, braided stream, braining, branch, brook, brooklet, bump off, burn, butcher, call off, cancel, carry away, carry off, censor, channel, chloroform, choke, choke off, clamp down on, close, complete, conclusion, constitute, consume, convulse, cork, cork up, coup de grace, crack down on, creek, crick, cross out, crush, cut, cut down, cut off, cut short, damp, damp down, deaden, dealing death, death, deathblow, decimate, decree, defeat, delete, delight, denouement, deprive of life, destroy, destruction, destruction of life, devastate, dispatch, dispose of, divert, do away with, do for, do in, do to death, down, drop the curtain, drown, dull, edit, edit out, eliminate, enact, enact laws, end, end off, enliven, entertain, eradicate, erase, euthanasia, execute, execution, exhaust, exhilarate, expunge, expurgate, exterminate, extermination, extinguish, fag out, fatigue, filibuster, fill, finalize, finish, finish off, flow of blood, flowing stream, fluviation, fold up, fracture one, fresh, freshet, gag, game, get it over, get over with, get rid of, get the floor, get through with, gill, give the quietus, gore, have the floor, hit, hold down, hugger-mugger, hurt, hush, hush up, hush-hush, ice, idle, immolate, immolation, jump on, kayo, keep down, keep under, kibosh, killing, knife, knock dead, knock off, knock out, lapidation, launch into eternity, lay low, lazy stream, legislate, liquidate, lobby through, logroll, loosen up, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrdom, martyrization, martyrize, massacre, meandering stream, mercy killing, midchannel, midstream, millstream, moving road, muffle, murder, muzzle, navigable river, negative, neutralize, nip, nullify, obliterate, occupy, omit, ordain, pain, pass, perfect, pigeonhole, pocket, poison, poisoning, polish off, pour water on, prey, purge, put away, put down, put in force, put paid to, put through, put to death, put to sleep, quarry, quash, quell, quench, race, racing stream, railroad through, raise a laugh, raise a smile, ravage, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, remove from life, repress, rescind, ritual killing, ritual murder, river, rivulet, roll logs, rub out, ruin, rule against, run, rundle, runlet, runnel, sacrifice, scrag, shoot, shoot down, shooting, shush, shut, shut down, shut down on, shut off, sike, silence, sit down on, sit on, slaughter, slay, slaying, smash, smother, snuff out, solace, spend, spill stream, squash, squelch, stanch, starve, stifle, still, stoning, strangle, stream, stream action, streamlet, strike, strike off, strike out, stultify, subdue, subterranean river, suffocate, suppress, switch off, table, take life, take off, take the floor, taking of life, termination, the hunted, throttle, tickle, tire out, titillate, to, torment, torture, turn off, use up, venery, veto, victim, void, wadi, waste, watercourse, waterway, weary, while away, wipe out, wow, yield the floor, zap

Etymology 1
, probably from a variant of cwellan:. (See quell:.)

Etymology 2
From kille: via  kil:

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: assassinat
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: tappo, surma
 * French:
 * German: Tötung, Ermordung , Mord
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 죽이다
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: matar
 * Russian: убийство
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: dödande, dräpande
 * Vietnamese: giết
 * West Frisian: fermoardzje, moardzje, deadzje


 * German: Gnadenschuss


 * Greek: θανατηφόρο πλήγμα


 * Catalan: assassinat, mort
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: moord, prooi (animal)
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: 死体,
 * Norwegian:
 * West Frisian: moard, dea

Verb

 * Afrikaans: vermoor
 * Albanian:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: öldürmək
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: supan
 * Belarusian: забіваць, забіць
 * Bengali: meredewa
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , 戕殺, 戕杀
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, ihjelslå, slå ihjel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: tappaa, surmata ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კვლა, მოკვლა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, θανατώνω, φονεύω
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Hawaiian: hoʻomake
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मार डालना,
 * Hungarian:, , gyilkol
 * Icelandic:, , ,
 * Ido: mortigar
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh: өлтiру
 * Khmer: (somləp)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: /-kuj-/ کوشتن
 * Sorani: (kuştin)
 * Kyrgyz: өлтүрүү
 * Lao:
 * Sorani: (kuştin)
 * Kyrgyz: өлтүрүү
 * Lao:


 * Latin:, , , caedo, concido
 * Latvian: nogalinat
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: qatel
 * Mongolian: алах
 * Nepali: मार्नु
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:, aowilrnan
 * Old French: ,
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਾਰ ਸੁੱਟਣਾ (mār suṭṭṇā)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: mazzar
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: marbh, cuir gu bàs
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: bolaya
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, , avliva, , assasinera
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: கொல் (col)
 * Tatar: üterergä
 * Telugu: చంపివేయు
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: (sö pa)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: вбивати / убивати, вбити /
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek: oʻldirmoq
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: deidön
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טייטן, אומברענגען
 * Zazaki:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: deidön
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טייטן, אומברענגען
 * Zazaki:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek: σβήνω


 * Russian:


 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * German: zunichte machen (plans), streichen (newspaper article)
 * Greek: σκοτώνω


 * Italian:
 * Lao:
 * Thai: (kâa)


 * Catalan: matar
 * Croatian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German: totschlagen (time), killen (informal: alcohol)


 * : bunuh, membunuh, menghabisi
 * : occider
 * : 殺す (ころす, korosu), 殺害する (さつがいする, satsugai-suru)

Related terms

 * instakill
 * killer
 * killing


 * killjoy
 * kill off
 * kill-time