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Synonyms for killing
ˈkɪl ɪŋkilling
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Princeton's WordNet
killing, violent deathnoun
an event that causes someone to die
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putting to death, kill, violent death, cleanupAntonyms:
unhumorous, humourless, humorlesskilling, kill, putting to deathnoun
the act of terminating a life
Synonyms:
putting to death, kill, violent death, cleanupAntonyms:
humourless, humorless, unhumorouskilling, cleanupadjective
a very large profit
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cleansing, cleanup, cleaning, putting to death, cleanup spot, kill, cleanup position, violent deathAntonyms:
unhumorous, humourless, humorlesskilling, sidesplittingadjective
very funny
"a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
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sidesplittingAntonyms:
humourless, humorless, unhumorous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
killingadjective
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fatal, mortal, deadly, destructive, captivating, charming, fascinatingkillingnoun
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slaying, slaughter, butchering, butchery, assassination, massacre, strangulation, immolation, holocaust, execution, fusillade, carnage, murder, manslaughter, chaud-medley, lynching, guillotine, burkism, garrote, chance-medley, decimation, assideration, destruction, blasting, counteraction, neutralization
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#967 | death | |
#1700 | dead | |
#2732 | cleaning | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3281 | killed | |
#4553 | murder | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5377 | killing | |
#5649 | deaths | |
#8462 | kills | |
#9930 | cleanup | |
#14083 | slaughter | |
#14151 | cleansing | |
#14956 | massacre | |
#16974 | assassination | |
#17099 | murders | |
#19018 | homicide | |
#21870 | killings | |
#28633 | carnage | |
#34404 | manslaughter | |
#34681 | murdering |
How to use killing in a sentence?
Jose Alba has our full support, new York City is in crisis and at this point we are just fed up with people robbing, looting, attacking, assaulting, killing our small business owners.
Pastor Rodney McIntosh of Christ:
I want to find our how you are going to twist this one to make it seem as though it's justified for you killing this lady in her house.
I resolutely deny any connection between the killing and Russian officialdom. everything further that Russian President Vladimir Putins spokesman can read in media reports is, in my evaluation and in the evaluation of Germanys Interior Ministry, speculation at the moment.
Military operations in Unity and Upper Nile states over the past three days in particular have again devastated countless lives, eyewitness accounts report targeted rape and killing of civilians, including children.
We share a lot of biochemical similarities, and so when we are trying to kill off the fungus, we need to be careful that we’re not also killing ourselves.
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