With pregnant sense. (a) to shed the blood of (another person or persons): to kill in a manner involving effusion of blood; often loosely, to kill…

In extended use: to cause to bleed, esp. by cutting; (also) to shed the blood of, kill. Cf. bloodletting, n. 2.

to be (a person's) priest: to kill (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To make shorter, to diminish the length of, to abridge, curtail. With reference to duration.

absol. To perform the act of killing; to commit murder or slaughter.

to come (also get) off one's perch (colloquial): to adopt a less arrogant or condescending manner. to knock (also take,etc.) (a person) off his or…

to trip (also turn, tumble, kick,etc.) up a person's heels and variants: to trip up a person; to lay low or bring down a person; also figurative. Now…

to make dice of (a person's) bones: see quot. 1646.

to put out (also quench) a person's light(s): to kill a person.

intransitive. With for. colloquial (originally Hunting). To be credited with the death of (esp. one or more of a group); to put to death, kill…

Originally and chiefly U.S. to fix (a person): to deal with, settle or ‘do for’ (a person); to kill (a person). to fix it: to arrange matters. any way…