kill
Pronunciation
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- When you kill something or someone, you put them to death; you take away life.
- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
- To make something not work.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- If you kill a thing, you bring it to an end.
- Kill the jokes. Let's get serious.
- If something has been killed it has been treated in a very bad way.
- The rough road killed the tires on my car.
- The small writing is killing my eyes.
- My dad is going to kill me when he sees my bad grade.
- If something is killing you, it causes pain. If a body part is killing you, it hurts.
- My headache is killing me.
- My head is killing me.
- If something funny kills you it makes you laugh.
- Your jokes just kill me.
Synonyms
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[change]- The act of killing.
- The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- The result of killing; the thing that has been killed.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.