transitive. To put to sleep (or to death), lull to rest; also, to stupefy.

transitive. To torment; to kill, destroy.

To strike or smite so as to kill; to put to death by means of a weapon; also generally, to deprive of life by violence.

transitive. To kill, put to death (a person or animal); to strike so as to kill. Also (occasionally) intransitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To destroy, kill.

transitive. To slay, kill off. Also figurative.

To slay, destroy, put an end to.

transitive. To kill, destroy.

transitive. To destroy by depriving of life; to put (or bring) to death; to slay or kill.

transitive. To deprive of life.

A day or some period of a person's life; (chiefly in plural) a person's life or lifetime, ‘(all) the days of (one's) life’.

transitive. To put (a living being) out of existence, to kill; to put an end to (life). Obsolete exc. archaic.

transitive. To cause to perish, destroy.

transitive. To put to sleep; to stun; in Old English to put to death.

transitive. To strike, kill, overcome.

To destroy, cause to perish, cut off.

transitive. To put to death as a martyr.

to do (also i-do, draw) of life: to kill, destroy. Obsolete.

figurative. To cause to come from, into, out of, to, etc. a certain state or condition, or to be or do… with to:as to bring to a close, end, head…

transitive. To oppress, crush; †to kill, destroy (obsolete). Occasionally with †out. Now rare.

transitive. To cause to perish, to kill.

transitive. To kill, put to death, destroy; to deaden, mortify. Also figurative.

to do (also bring) of days and variants: to deprive of life, to kill. Cf. bring, v. 8c life-day, n. Obsolete.

to do to death: (a) to kill violently (now archaic and rare); (b) colloquial to repeat too often or ad nauseam, overdo.

to draw (a person) to death: to put (a person) to death. Cf. to draw of life at life, n. phrases 12a(b). Obsolete.

transitive. Frequently hyperbolical. To cause grievous emotional or mental pain to; to wound (the heart); to destroy, annihilate, put an end to (a…

To slay, kill. (?= Old English ofsleán.)

transitive. To destroy.

to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird): to stretch upon or bring to the ground; to bring low, throw down, overthrow, destroy. Obsolete.

transitive. To kill, esp. cruelly or violently. Also with down. Obsolete.

said of a wild beast, a devil. Obsolete.

To put out of existence (living beings); to deprive of life; to slay, kill.

transitive. To harm or mistreat physically; to destroy, put out of existence. Also (reflexive): to injure or kill oneself. Obsolete.

To put to death; to deprive of life; to slay, slaughter. In early use implying personal agency and the use of a weapon; later, extended to any means…

To cut up, cut to pieces, slaughter. Obsolete.

: to take a person's life: to deprive a person of life, to kill a person. Also to take the life of (also †fro). to take one's (own) life: to kill…

To make an end of (a person); to kill. Obsolete.

With complement expressing the result: to kill to (†into, unto) death, to kill dead. (Cf. German totschlagen, Dutch doodslaan.)

transitive. To cut into pieces; to kill, slay, butcher. Obsolete.

To make dead (literal and figurative); to cause to die; to put to death, kill, slay, destroy.

transitive. to ding to death (also dead) and variants: to strike dead; to kill. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use).

transitive. To deprive of life; to kill, put to death. Also: to render insensible. Occasionally intransitive: to kill. Obsolete.

To cause the death of; to kill, put to death. transitive. In past participle with to be. = sense 1a. Obsolete.

figurative. To put into a specified state or condition; esp. in to dight to death, to put to death, kill, slay (see also 2). Obsolete.

To ‘cut off’, kill, slay.

transitive. More generally: to kill (a person or animal). Now rare (Scottish in later use).

With adverbial complements, as kill out (away, †down, †up), kill off, to cut off completely, to remove, extinguish, or get rid of (a number, a…

to slay upor down, to kill completely or outright; to annihilate. Obsolete.

To cause to perish. Obsolete.

To bereave or deprive of life. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To finish or dispose of (something) rapidly; to kill (a person) quickly. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause (a person or animal) to die, to kill; to bring to the point of death (by, for, or with). Now only (archaic, English regional, or…

transitive. To kill, slay.

transitive. To put to death.

to bring to, on,or upon (one's) bier: to bring to the grave or to death, to put to death; in passive, to meet one's death, die. Obsolete.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern). To kill, do away with. Cf. to put down 4 at phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.

transitive. To strike or knock to pieces; to strike down violently; also, to kill outright.

intransitive. To put (a person) out of the way, put to death; euphemistic to kill. Cf. to make away 3 at phrasal verbs 1. Now frequently reflexive.

To kill (a person); to put to death. Also figurative. Cf. sense A. 2b. Obsolete.

transitive. To remove by violence; to kill, destroy. Also with away. Now archaic and rare.

transitive. To kill, put to death. Now chiefly (euphemistic): to kill (an old, sick, or injured animal) in a humane manner. Cf. to put to sleep at…

to put (also †bring, †take, †rid,etc.) out of the way: to get rid of, do away with, esp. to kill. Also with a verb expressing the means of the…

To get rid of or dispose of (any one) by putting to death; to make away with, kill.

To deprive (a person) suddenly of life, or of one of the faculties, as if by a physical blow. Often with complement, as to strike dead, blind, deaf,…

transitive. To kill.

With adverbs: To drive, force, or move sharply and suddenly off, out, up; †to cut off (some one's head). Also dialect to drive or ‘ferret’ out…

To put (any one) suddenly or violently into prison, confinement, or the like; ‘to force into another condition, properly into a worse’ (Johnson)…

= extinguish, v. 3f.

transitive. To bring to a specified condition (frequently death); to reduce to. Frequently in to make out of the way (also to make hence): to…

Idiomatically combined with adverbs: see fetch, v. phrasal verbs to fet again: to restore to consciousness. to fet in: to take in a supply of. to f…

To put to death (suddenly or prematurely), to bring to an untimely end.

transitive. = to make away with at phrasal verbs 1; (also) to put an end to (a person's life). Cf. sense 61.

transitive. To kill, slay.

To destroy, bring to an end. Obsolete.

To cause (a person) to be carried or conducted to a destination. In various phrases with the meaning to kill, put to death.

transitive. To kill (a person); to put (an animal) down. Also: to bury, dispose of the remains of (a dead person). Now colloquial.

transitive. To deprive of life; to kill.

transitive. To kill.

To dispatch, destroy, kill (a person, etc.).

transitive. To deprive of life, cause to die; to kill. Also figurative. Obsolete.

Hence for: To put to death, kill. rare.

transitive. To deprive of life; to put out of life, to kill.

To make away with, kill (an individual).

transitive. To stretch at full length (also, all along); hence, to lay low, prostrate; to destroy, overthrow, kill.

transitive. To bring to a specified condition (frequently death); to reduce to. Frequently in to make out of the way (also to make hence): to…

To put an end to, ‘do for’ (a person). (Now humorous.)

With adverbial complements, as kill out (away, †down, †up), kill off, to cut off completely, to remove, extinguish, or get rid of (a number, a…

transitive. To deprive of life or consciousness; to render lifeless or inanimate; to kill. Also: to reverse the process of endowing with life or…

The threat ‘I'll feeze you’ seems to have given rise to the following senses. vaguely, To ‘do for’, ‘settle the business of’ (a person, a person's…

to smite,†stab in, under the fifth rib: to strike to the heart. literal and figurative.

With complement expressing the result: to kill to (†into, unto) death, to kill dead. (Cf. German totschlagen, Dutch doodslaan.)

To remove from this world to the next: cf. translate, v. 10. Obsolete.

transitive. To slay, kill.

transitive. Esp. of a disease or other cause of death: to kill, to ‘carry off’.

transitive. To kill or slay.

A dead person, a corpse; a dying person, an intended victim, a ‘goner’. Also in later use: a victim of violence. Originally often with allusion to…

transitive. To lay (a person or animal) on the back; to turn (an animal) belly upwards; (hence) to kill (an animal, esp. a whale: cf. sense 13b).

transitive. To deprive of life.

slang. transitive. To kill, destroy. Usually with off.

transitive. To kill outright. In quot. absol.

To render lifeless; to reduce to dead matter.

To get (a person) out of the way; to get rid of, dispatch. Obsolete.

to make dog's meat of: to cut or beat up; to reduce to carrion fit for dogs. Cf. to make mincemeat of at mincemeat, n. 2.

figurative. Something reduced to small fragments; a jumble, or clumsy mixture of such fragments. Frequently in to make mincemeat of and similar…

To drain of blood, to kill. rare.

To complete the destruction of; to dispatch, kill. Also in weaker sense: To complete the discomfiture or defeat of; to reduce to complete…

transitive. To cut down, slay. Obsolete. pseudo-archaic.

To ‘quiet’ by killing or stunning. ? slang.

transitive. slang. To assault with blows, beat up; to defeat; to finish off, kill.

To deprive of life, kill (e.g. the tissues).

transitive. To deprive of life, force, or vitality.

To stretch out and prepare (a body) for burial; hence (slang) to stretch out in death, to lay low, to ‘do for’; figurative to put ‘hors de combat’…

figurative. transitive. U.S. slang. To kill. Also with out.

transitive. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). To kill.

transitive. To break, destroy, ruin; to kill. Cf. puckeroo, adj., puckerooed, adj.

transitive. slang (chiefly U.S.). To wipe out, kill; to murder, assassinate.

transitive. To make into a corpse; to make cadaverous.

under the sod: dead and buried; to put under the sod: to kill. colloquial and dialect.

transitive. To kill (a person) so as to make it appear a suicide. Also: to cause (a person) to take his or her own life.

transitive. To finish killing, kill outright. Obsolete. rare.

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…

transitive. colloquial. To bury (a person); (also) to kill.

transitive. To make a corpse of, to kill.

transitive. To make rigid; to take away the natural suppleness or mobility of (the limbs, joints, muscles, etc.). Also figurative; slang to make a…

To give a ‘tip’ to; to furnish (a person) with private information as to the chances of some event; to warn, alert, or inform (a person); to make…

intransitive. to do away with. To kill, murder. Cf. to make away with 1 at make, v.1 phrasal verbs 1.

transitive. slang. To dispose of (a troublesome or unwanted person or thing); to destroy or obliterate (a specific target); to kill, murder; to…

To lay (a person) flat. Also (now dialect), to straighten the limbs (of a dead person); to ‘lay out’ for burial (= streek, v. 2); (slang), to kill…

transitive. U.S. (chiefly Showmen's slang). To force (a person) from a moving train. Also in extended use.

Military slang. To kill.

Australian slang. to knock rotten: to kill or stun; to knock out.

To knock down (skittles, etc.); Cricket, to bowl out (batters) in rapid succession. Also figurative: to kill, defeat easily.

To put an end to, abolish; to stamp out, wipe out; to kill.

transitive. North American slang. To kill, esp. by shooting.

To kill or murder. U.S. Criminals' slang.

transitive. To stun (a horse, etc.) by a shot in the ‘crest’ or ridge of the neck. Also, to stun (a person); to kill; to exhaust physically; to crea…

transitive. U.S. slang. To kill, murder.

To dispose of, eliminate, or remove (something perceived as inconvenient or unwanted); occasionally, to kill. colloquial.

figurative. The repose of death. (Usually with qualifying terms or phrases.) to put to sleep, to kill, esp. painlessly; also figurative.

To kill, esp. with a gun; to deal a sudden blow to.

figurative. To kill; to rob. slang (originally U.S.).

transitive. slang. To kill (a person); to defeat or dispose of (an opponent, rival, etc.). Also: to destroy or disable (an object, esp. a military…

To kill; to murder. Cf. waste, v. 4c. slang (originally Military).

To injure seriously, destroy or kill (someone or something). U.S. colloquial.

transitive. U.S. slang. To kill. Also figurative.