Concept cluster: Activities > Ending a life or causing death
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(informal, transitive) To kill.
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(transitive, IRC) To ban (a user) from an IRC server so that he/she is automatically disconnected on any future attempt to connect.
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(figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
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(dated, rare) To kill or murder.
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(UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
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A breaking out upon; an assault.
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(chiefly US, idiomatic) To kill, especially to murder.
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Alternative form of buang [(Singapore, colloquial, informal) To discard or throw something out.]
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(slang) To kill.
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To disband. To do away with, kill
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(intransitive, slang) To win overwhelmingly.
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(transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
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(transitive) To kill.
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To attack someone on the edges of a mosh-pit - who isn't moshing
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(hyperbolic, informal, sports) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
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(nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
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(idiomatic, dated) To slay, often in great numbers.
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(UK, US, transitive, slang) To kill.
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Alternative form of deal breaker [(idiomatic) An issue which causes a relationship (especially in business) to fail.]
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(transitive, literally) To remove the head of.
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(transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
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(Internet slang) An act of killing or murder.
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(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
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(transitive, slang) To kill.
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(transitive, idiomatic, informal, euphemistic) To have someone killed.
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(transitive, colloquial) To kill or end.
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(fiction, transitive) To kill an already dead being, such as a ghost, a zombie, a skeleton, etc.
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(colloquial, derogatory) A teaching technique in which students are repeatedly drilled on the same material.
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(US, slang) To murder; to attack, assault, especially in an ambush.
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(computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
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(MLE, MTE, transitive) To kill; to murder.
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(transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
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(science fiction) To euthanize.
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(transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
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(transitive) to kill
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(transitive) To make fatal or deadly.
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(transitive, slang) To kill.
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(euphemistic) To kill.
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(slang) To kill.
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(transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
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(transitive, slang) To approve or requisition another's harm or death; to put a hit out on.
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(also figuratively) To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
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Alternative spelling of hard kill [(military) The neutralization of an incoming munition by destroying it rather than avoiding it.]
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(Euphemistic) To euthanize.
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(transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
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(euphemistic) kill, assassinate, execute
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(transitive, slang) To murder.
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To kill as a sacrifice.
adj
(idiomatic) Intending to kill or destroy someone or something.
adj
(board games, video games, slang) Having the ability to instantly kill.
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(transitive, slang) To put to death; to assassinate, especially for political reasons.
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(slang, transitive) To terminate.
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(MLE, slang) To kill.
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Alternative spelling of kibosh [(transitive) To decisively terminate.]
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(transitive) To decisively terminate.
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Obsolete form of killed.
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(transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
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(Internet) To add (a user) to a kill file.
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(colloquial) To perform or do something outstandingly, to be very impressive.
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(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.
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(idiomatic) To destroy things or characters, particularly in art, of which one is fond, and thereby conflicted about.
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(dialect, US) To murder someone and ensure that they are dead.
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(online gaming, derogatory) In a multiplayer online game, to deal a finishing blow on an enemy that other player(s) had almost killed, without their consent, so that one gets the credit or rewards instead of them.
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(idiomatic) To begin a festive celebration and rejoicing for someone's long-awaited return.
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(dated, slang) To get a positive test result from an old-fashioned pregnancy test.
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(transitive) To pacify somebody by remaining goodhearted.
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The process of killing something off; an elimination.
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(leetspeak) To kill.
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(nonstandard, slang) killer
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Pronunciation spelling of killer. [One who or that which kills.]
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(obsolete, figuratively) A violent person.
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One who is killed.
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(figuratively) A remarkably impressive person or thing.
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(slang) A person or thing that is astonishing, outstanding, or exciting.
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Alternative form of kill file [(Internet) To add (a user) to a kill file.]
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Synonym of Killing field
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Alternative form of kill-off [The process of killing something off; an elimination.]
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(transitive, slang) To kill.
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(transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
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(transitive) To kill.
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(transitive, rare) To kill in sacrifice.
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(idiomatic) To utterly destroy.
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(idiomatic, transitive) To kill a specified person easily and quickly.
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(transitive, figuratively) To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
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(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
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Alternative form of kill one's darlings [(idiomatic) To destroy things or characters, particularly in art, of which one is fond, and thereby conflicted about.]
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Alternative form of kill one's darlings [(idiomatic) To destroy things or characters, particularly in art, of which one is fond, and thereby conflicted about.]
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(colloquial, humorous) To murder.
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(transitive, slang) To murder.
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(transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
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(transitive, slang) To kill.
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(transitive, stative) To kill more than.
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(transitive, US) To frisk; to check someone's body for concealed items, especially weapons.
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(transitive, informal) To kill permanently, so as to prevent resurrection.
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(idiomatic, euphemistic) passive euthanasia
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(transitive) To kill someone.
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(euphemistic) To euthanize (an animal).
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(idiomatic) To kill.
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(euphemistic) To execute by beheading.
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To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
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(transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
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(idiomatic) To severely defeat.
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(dialect, chiefly Scotland or US, western Pennsylvania) To clean up, especially a room.
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(transitive, criminal slang) To kill, especially to murder.
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(slang) An assassination.
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To destroy; to kill.
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(transitive) To kill as part of a series of murders.
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(chiefly alt-right slang) To destroy; to remove; to take down, especially from an Internet platform.
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To strike down or incapacitate.
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(euphemistic) To murder.
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(slang, transitive, intransitive) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something; to kill (slang sense).
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To kill violently; to slay.
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(transitive) To kill a living being.
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Alternative form of soft kill [(military) The neutralization of an incoming munition by avoiding it rather than destroying it.]
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Alternative form of spawnkill [(video games) To kill a player or NPC enemy at a spawn point.]
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Alternative form of spawnkill [(video games) To kill a player or NPC enemy at a spawn point.]
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(slang) To kill.
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(US, slang, dated) To be killed by a bullet from a gun.
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(slang) To kill someone.
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(intransitive) To be killed by strangulation, or become strangled.
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to kill someone or something; to cause to die suddenly
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(transitive, slang, euphemistic) To kill.
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(euphemistic, US) To murder; to assassinate.
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(attributive, usually hyphenated) Of, pertaining to, or being such an act of murder.
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(US, intelligence, euphemistic) To kill; to assassinate.
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(transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).
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(transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
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(transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
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(uncountable) Such deaths considered collectively.
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(slang) To kill.
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(slang, transitive) To murder, knock off.

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