Usually means: Eliminate or end something deliberately.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. kill off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kill off: Merriam-Webster
  3. kill off: Vocabulary.com
  4. Kill-Off, kill-off: Wordnik
  5. kill off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. kill-off, kill off: Wiktionary
  7. kill off: Dictionary.com
  8. Kill off, The Kill-Off, The Kill-Off (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. kill off: Rhymezone
  10. kill off: FreeDictionary.org
  11. kill off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. kill off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kill off: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (kill off)

verb:  (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
verb:  (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.

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