单词 | pick something or someone off |
释义 | (phrasal verb) Definition to aim at and shoot (people or things) one by one Snipers picked the soldiers off. Synonyms shoot The police had orders to shoot anyone who attacked them. hit kill More than 200 people were killed in the disaster. wound The driver of the bus was wounded by shrapnel. take out fire at gun down put a bullet in Additional synonymsin the sense of kill Definition to cause the death of (a person or animal) More than 200 people were killed in the disaster. Synonyms slay, murder, execute, slaughter, destroy, waste (informal), do in (slang), take out (slang), massacre, butcher, wipe out (informal), dispatch, cut down, erase, assassinate, eradicate, whack (informal), do away with, blow away (slang, US), obliterate, knock off (slang), liquidate, decimate, annihilate, neutralize, exterminate, terminate (slang), croak, mow down, take (someone's) life, bump off (slang), extirpate (archaic), wipe from the face of the earth (informal) in the sense of wound Definition to cause an injury to the body or feelings of The driver of the bus was wounded by shrapnel. Synonyms injure, cut, hit, damage, wing, hurt, harm, slash, pierce, irritate, gash, lacerateNearby words of |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含298861条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。