Usually means: Disabling target without physical destruction.
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  1. Soft-kill, Soft kill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. soft kill: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (soft kill)

noun:  (military) The neutralization of an incoming munition by avoiding it rather than destroying it.
noun:  (idiomatic) A murder that does not leave behind any physical evidence, because the perpetrator carried out the crime by using their bare hands, as opposed to a weapon.

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