| 单词 | kill |
| 释义 | kill (once / 29 pages) 1vn 2v 3v 4v 5v To kill is to end the life of some living being or something else. So, you could kill a deer by shooting it with a hunting rifle or kill a bill by voting against it. Hunters kill animals for their meat, and drivers sometimes kill an animal accidentally, or inadvertently kill a plant, simply by forgetting to water it. Certain inanimate things are also said to kill, like poison or disease or drunk driving. In each of these cases, death is caused and life is taken. You can also kill figuratively, as when a school board kills the foreign language program or a thunderstorm kills your hopes of a picnic. WORD FAMILYkill: killable, killed, killer, killing, kills+/killer: killers/killing: killingly, killings USAGE EXAMPLESTwo other car bombs killed six people, the security official said. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Jurors would later see a video of Roof confessing to the crime — “Well, I killed them, I guess,” he said — and offering a racist rationale. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Citizens of more than a dozen countries, including Turkey, were killed in the carnage. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank The farmer killed a pig for the holidays Hypo annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out kill in large numbers decimatekill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies drownkill by submerging in water massacre, mow down, slaughterkill a large number of people indiscriminately erase, wipe outremove from memory or existence butcher, slaughterkill (animals) usually for food consumption poisonkill with poison lapidate, stonekill by throwing stones at poisonkill by its poison commit suicidekill oneself dispatchkill without delay vaporize, zapkill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting sacrificekill or destroy take offprove fatal tomahawkkill with a tomahawk destroy, put downput (an animal) to death saber, sabrekill with a saber overlay, overliekill by lying on brainkill by smashing someone's skull put away, put to sleepkill gently, as with an injection do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize, wasteget rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing exterminate, kill offkill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many asphyxiate, smother, suffocatedeprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing strangle, strangulate, throttlekill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air behead, decapitate, decollatecut the head of impale, stakekill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole dismemberseparate the limbs from the body martyrkill as a martyr shed bloodkill violently bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slaykill intentionally and with premeditation assassinatemurder; especially of socially prominent persons execute, put to deathkill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment draw, draw and quarter, quarterpull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him lynchkill without legal sanction pip, shootkill by firing a missile electrocute, frykill by electrocution, as in the electric chair chinecut through the backbone of an animal guillotinekill by cutting the head off with a guillotine garotte, garrote, garrotte, scragstrangle with an iron collar burkemurder without leaving a trace on the body crucifykill by nailing onto a cross executemurder in a planned fashion flightshoot a bird in flight pick offshoot one by one burnburn at the stake hang, string upkill by hanging 2v be fatal cigarettes kill drunken driving kills Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 3v deprive of life AIDS has killed thousands in Africa Hypo strike down cause to die, especially suddenly 4v cause the death of, without intention She was killed in the collision of three cars Hypo electrocute kill by electric shock 5n the act of terminating a life Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper killing, putting to death final solution the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 Alamoa siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command coup de grace, deathblow the blow that kills (usually mercifully) deaththe act of killing euthanasia, mercy killingthe act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) homicidethe killing of a human being by another human being despatch, dispatchkilling a person or animal fellthe act of felling something (as a tree) self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicidethe act of killing yourself slaughterthe killing of animals (as for food) poisoningthe act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill asphyxiation, suffocationkilling by depriving of oxygen ritual killing, sacrificethe act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity electrocutionkilling by electric shock beheading, decapitationkilling by cutting off the head genocide, race murder, racial exterminationsystematic killing of a racial or cultural group honor killingan ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image manslaughterhomicide without malice aforethought execution, murder, slayingunlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being assisted suicidesuicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible felo-de-sean act of deliberate self destruction hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppukuritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society sutteethe act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband gassingthe deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas shootingkilling someone by gunfire choking, strangling, strangulation, throttlingthe act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe hecatomba great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen immolationkilling or offering as a sacrifice conclusion, ending, termination the act of ending something 6n the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile 2the pilot reported two kills during the mission Hyper destruction, devastation the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists 1v end or extinguish by forceful means Syn|Hyper stamp out end, terminate bring to an end or halt 2v cause to cease operating kill the engine Hyper cut, switch off, turn off, turn out cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch 3v destroy a vitally essential quality of or in Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods Hyper destroy, destruct do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of 4v thwart the passage of kill a motion Syn|Hyper defeat, shoot down, vote down, vote out blackball, negative, veto vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent 5v hit with great force He killed the ball Hyper hit cause to move by striking 6v hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games She killed the ball Hyper hit cause to move by striking 7v mark for deletion, rub off, or erase 3kill these lines in the President's speech Syn|Hyper obliterate, wipe out take away, take out take out or remove 1v tire out completely The daily stress of her work is killing her Hyper beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up wear out completely 2v be the source of great pain for 4These new shoes are killing me! Hyper ache, hurt, suffer feel physical pain v overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration 5The comedian was so funny, he was killing me! Hyper overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli v drink down entirely She killed a bottle of brandy that night Syn|Hyper belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, pop, pour down, toss off drink, imbibe take in liquids |
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