kill | Lernwerd

Forms

1.To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
- As the country reckons with how to prevent more children from being killed at school, the legacies of the Parkland victims live on.
- After all, improving road safety has become a widely endorsed cause because nobody wants to kill, or be killed, in a road accident.
2.To render inoperative.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
3.To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- The editor decided to kill the story.
- My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
- The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
4.To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- That night, she was dressed to kill.
- He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me.
- That joke always kills me.

1.Specifically, the death blow.
- The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
2.The act of killing.
- The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- The blonde women were in a frenzy of excitement, their faces transformed from dull moronity to living evil; they shouted like wild animals at the kill.
3.The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
4.An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.

Very common· #325

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).