Kill

verb kills · killing · killed · kill

1. transitive To put to death; to extinguish the life of. Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
2. transitive To render inoperative. He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
3. figuratively, transitive To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate. The editor decided to kill the story.
4. excessive, figuratively, transitive To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate. That night, she was dressed to kill.
5. excessive, figuratively, intransitive, transitive To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt. These tight shoes are killing my feet.
6. figuratively, transitive To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
7. transitive To use up or to waste. I'm just doing this to kill time.
8. figuratively, informal, transitive To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat. Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate.
9. transitive To force a company out of business.
10. excessive, figuratively, informal, transitive To punish severely. My parents are going to kill me!
11. transitive To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point. That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
12. transitive To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay. As the ball was delivered deep into St Kilda's forward line by Billings, Bontempelli had position on the goal line, with a pack forming in front of him. He decided to fly but didn't kill the ball, leaving it to spill where he had been positioned moments earlier. Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and
13. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy. When comics fail, they "die"; when they succeed, they "kill."
14. informal, transitive To cause to assume the value zero.
15. Internet, transitive To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
16. To deadmelt.
17. slang To sexually penetrate in a skillful way. I felt on her big fat fanny Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
18. informal, reflexive To exert oneself to an excessive degree. Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.

Similar: bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, dead

noun kills · k1ll

1. The act of killing. The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
2. Specifically, the death blow. The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
3. The result of killing; that which has been killed. The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
4. countable An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed. confirmed kills
5. The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally. As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.

noun kills · Kill · Kills · 'kill

1. New York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea. The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
2. New York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal In particular, a waterway with a name ending in kill, such as the Beaverkill or the East Kill. We're gonna go flyfishing over in the kill.

noun kills

1. New York, Northeastern, US, alternative, rare Alternative form of kiln.kiln This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes,

proper noun Kills

1. A surname.