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Synonyms for kill
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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. kill

    To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.

    Synonyms:
    assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, massacre, murder, put to death, slaughter, slay

    Preposition:
    To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. kill

    Synonyms:
    slay, murder, assassinate, destroy, slaughter, butcher, immolate, massacre, deaden, put to death, despatch

    Antonyms:
    resuscitate, revivify, vivify, reanimate

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. killing, kill, putting to deathnoun

    the act of terminating a life

    Synonyms:
    putting to death, killing, violent death, cleanup

  2. killverb

    the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile

    "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"

    Synonyms:
    putting to death, killing

  3. killverb

    cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly

    "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  4. kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote outverb

    thwart the passage of

    "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"

    Synonyms:
    pour down, drink down, toss off, shoot, wipe out, overcome, buck, down, bolt down, pop, stamp out, belt down, tear, vote down, shoot down, vote out, charge, obliterate, land, get the better of, turn thumbs down, defeat

  5. stamp out, killverb

    end or extinguish by forceful means

    "Stamp out poverty!"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, down, vote down, bolt down, pop

  6. killverb

    be fatal

    "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  7. killverb

    be the source of great pain for

    "These new shoes are killing me!"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  8. killverb

    overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration

    "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  9. killverb

    hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games

    "She killed the ball"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  10. killverb

    hit with great force

    "He killed the ball"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  11. killverb

    deprive of life

    "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  12. killverb

    cause the death of, without intention

    "She was killed in the collision of three cars"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  13. toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down, killverb

    drink down entirely

    "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"

    Synonyms:
    land, start, fling off, vote down, pull down, pop up, push down, go through, crop up, dash off, belt down, drink down, defeat, shoot down, cut down, pop out, scratch off, obliterate, toss off, bug out, stamp out, pour down, bolt down, wipe out, shovel in, down, refine, garbage down, gobble up, bulge, bulge out, pop, knock off, devour, fine-tune, knock down, protrude, come out, consume, vote out, polish

  14. kill, obliterate, wipe outverb

    mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

    "kill these lines in the President's speech"

    Synonyms:
    veil, eat up, vote down, exhaust, eat, blot out, eliminate, belt down, use up, drink down, defeat, decimate, shoot down, obscure, obliterate, run through, toss off, cancel out, stamp out, hide, bolt down, annihilate, wipe out, down, efface, pop, erase, extinguish, pour down, sweep away, consume, vote out, carry off, deplete, eradicate

  15. killverb

    tire out completely

    "The daily stress of her work is killing her"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  16. killverb

    cause to cease operating

    "kill the engine"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

  17. killverb

    destroy a vitally essential quality of or in

    "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

    Synonyms:
    obliterate, wipe out, shoot down, belt down, down, pour down, defeat, drink down, stamp out, vote out, toss off, vote down, bolt down, pop

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. immalated

    immalated means to cleanup;be gone with

    "dont`t immalate my father'

    Submitted by eleeannehudd on September 22, 2020  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. killverb

    Synonyms:
    slay, slaughter, murder, assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, lynch, massacre, burke, immolate, guillotine, decimate, destroy, blast, counteract, neutralize, quell, extinguish

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How to use kill in a sentence?

  1. Matias Gutierrez:

    It was all a plot. How can you have this type of assassination and not have a single dead but the President himself ? If my fellows had done the job, they would have had to enter the residence and kill the guards before killing the President. You would have seen a combat scene.

  2. Republican Sen. John Kennedy:

    Ma'am, can you help me here, these people are trying to kill me and hurt me the entire time that I'm dying.

  3. Cesare Pavese:

    One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

  4. Toneyasked Mack .:

    I had a gun in my lap and I ’m sitting there talking to God, saying like, ‘ I don’t want to do this, but if it comes to getting ugly with somebody going to try to kill me, I ’m going to have to do something first to prevent that, ’.

  5. Fatou Bensouda:

    The LRA has reportedly killed tens of thousands and displaced millions of people; terrorized civilians, abducted children and forced them to kill and serve as sex slaves. They have hacked off limbs and horribly disfigured men, women and children.


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