killingnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/us/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/B1 an occasion when a person is murdered:
a series of brutal killings
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- He was convicted of her killing.
- They are accused of terrible killings.
- Police are investigating the killings.
- The community is stunned by the killing.
- These brutal killings must be avenged.
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- butcher
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyr
- martyred
- necklace
- poison
- shoot sb down
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- throttle
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Idiom(s)
make a killing
killingadjective
uk/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/us/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/killing adjective (EFFORT)
informal making you feel extremely tired:
We had to do some killing stomach exercises last night.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- unwieldy
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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killing adjective (FUNNY)
old-fashioned extremely funny:
She told us a killing story about her wedding day.
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- hysterical
- jocular
- josh
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- satirize
- tickle
- tongue
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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