Synonyms for killing
ˈkɪl ɪŋkilling

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1. killing, violent deathnoun

   an event that causes someone to die

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

   Antonyms:
   unhumorous, humourless, humorless

2. killing, kill, putting to deathnoun

   the act of terminating a life

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

   Antonyms:
   humourless, humorless, unhumorous

3. killing, cleanupadjective

   a very large profit

   Synonyms:
   cleansing, cleanup, cleaning, putting to death, cleanup spot, kill, cleanup position, violent death

   Antonyms:
   unhumorous, humourless, humorless

4. killing, sidesplittingadjective

   very funny

   "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"

   Synonyms:
   sidesplitting

   Antonyms:
   humourless, humorless, unhumorous

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1. killingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fatal, mortal, deadly, destructive, captivating, charming, fascinating

2. killingnoun

   Synonyms:
   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

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1. List of paraphrases for "killing":

   murder, killed, kill, assassination, massacre, murdering, death, killings, slaughter, homicide, murders, kills, dead, carnage, manslaughter, deaths, shoot

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1. Nadine Gasman:

   This law typifies femicide as a grave crime and identifies it as a specific crime against women. It's a way to talk about this problem, make it visible by giving it a name and increasing sanctions for this crime, it has taken us a long time to say that the killing of a woman is a different phenomenon. Men are killed in the street, women are killed in the home. Men are killed with guns, women with knives and hands.

2. Christen Kuikoua:

   In the name of money and power, nations collide, Killing each other, as if life's a commodity to decide.

3. Nick Bonino:

   We’re getting scoring from everyone, from the power play, we’re killing penalties. Goaltending is great, obviously. So it’s been a good six games here.

4. Joe Manchin:

   Inflation is absolutely killing many, many people, they can't buy gasoline, they have a hard time buying groceries, everything they buy and consume for their daily lives is a hardship to us. And can't we wait to make sure that we do nothing to add to that ?

5. Manana Tsatieva:

   We wanted to build a bright future in Germany, to have a safer life and to be together again as a family.'' It wasn't to be.Shortly after arriving in Germany in 2016, Manana Tsatieva learned that Zelimkhan Khangoshvili had another wife in Ukraine who was pregnant. Manana Tsatieva and Zelimkhan Khangoshvili -- who had been married for two decades -- split and had minimal contact from that point on. Hopes dashedKhangoshvili's life in Germany initially seemed safer, but it was no less difficult : his asylum applications were rejected three times. Now his murder, and the emerging evidence that alleges links to Russian security services, have prompted many to ask why the German government has been uncharacteristically quiet on the matter.Since the killing, no German authorities have contacted Khangoshvili's family to.