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kill

verb

1 gangs killed twenty-seven people:

murder, cause the death of, take/end the life of, do away with, make away with, assassinate, do to death, eliminate, terminate, dispatch, finish off, put to death, execute;

slaughter, butcher, massacre, wipe out, destroy, annihilate, erase, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, decimate, mow down, shoot down, cut down, cut to pieces;

put down, put to sleep;

informal bump off, polish off, do in, do for, knock off, top, take out, croak, stiff, blow away, liquidate, dispose of;

North American, informal ice, off, rub out, waste, whack, scrag, smoke;

literary slay.

2 media hostility would kill all hopes of progress:

destroy, put an end to, bring to an end, be the end of, end, extinguish, dash, quell, quash, ruin, wreck, shatter, smash, crush, scotch;

stop, block, frustrate, thwart, put a stop to, prevent, defeat, derail;

informal put paid to, do for, put the lid on, put the kibosh on, stymie;

British, informal scupper, dish.

▷antonyms facilitate.

3 we had to kill several hours at the airport:

while away, use up, fill up, fill in, fill, occupy, beguile, pass, spend, expend;

fritter away, waste.

4 you must rest or you'll kill yourself:

exhaust, wear out, tire out, overtax, overtire, fatigue, weary, sap, drain, tax, strain, debilitate, enervate, prostrate;

informal knock out, fag out, shatter;

British, informal knacker.

▷antonyms refresh, revitalize.

5 informal my feet were killing me:

hurt, give pain to, cause pain to, cause agony to, pain, torture, torment, cause discomfort to;

be agonizing, be excruciating, be painful, be sore, be uncomfortable.

6 informal the music kills me every time I hear it:

overwhelm, take someone's breath away, leave speechless, shake, move, stir, stun, amaze, astonish, stagger, dumbfound;

informal bowl over, blow away, knock sideways, blow someone's mind, knock for six, flabbergast.

7 the captain kept the engines at a low rev to kill the noise:

muffle, deaden, stifle, dampen, damp down, smother, reduce, diminish, decrease, suppress, abate, tone down, moderate, silence, mute, still, soften, quell;

British quieten down;

North American quiet down.

▷antonyms amplify.

8 she gave me a shot to kill the pain:

alleviate, assuage, soothe, allay, take the edge off, mitigate, dull, blunt, mask, deaden, stifle, suppress, subdue, weaken, abate, quell, get rid of, put an end to.

▷antonyms intensify.

9 informal if a message has been killed, the file contains only the header:

delete, wipe out, erase, remove, destroy, rub out, cut out, cut, cancel, get rid of, expunge, obliterate, eliminate;

informal zap.

10 informal Congress killed an anti-tobacco bill:

veto, defeat, vote down, rule against, reject, throw out, overrule, stop, block, put a stop to, put an end to, quash, overturn, disallow;

informal give the thumbs down to, squash.

▷antonyms pass, accept.

11 informal Noel parked and killed the engine:

turn off, switch off, stop, stop working, shut off, shut down, cut, cut out, deactivate;

put out, turn out, extinguish.

▷antonyms start.

noun

1 the hunter proudly flung down his kill:

prey, quarry, victim, bag.

2 the wolf was moving in for the kill:

death blow, killing, act of killing, dispatch;

conclusion, ending, finish, end, climax;

French coup de grâce.

word links	kill
-cide person or substance that kills, as in insecticide -cide killing of someone, as in regicide, suicide