单词 | kill off |
释义 | kill off 1. kill [sense 3]verb If someone or something kills a project, activity, or idea, they completely destroy or end it. His objective was to kill the space station project altogether. [VERB noun] Public opinion may yet kill the proposal. [VERB noun] Synonyms: destroy, defeat, crush, scotch 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for kill If you say that a group or an amount of something has been killed off, you mean that all of them or all of it have been killed or destroyed. Their natural predators have been killed off. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] It is an effective treatment for the bacteria and does kill it off. [VERB noun PARTICLE] All blood products are now heat treated to kill off any infection. [VERB PARTICLE noun] |
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