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Definition & Synonyms
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• Kill
- (v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamens language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
- (n.) A kiln.
- (v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
- (v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill ones chances; to kill the sale of a book.
- (n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
- (v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
- (n.) The act of killing.
- (n.) An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.
Synonyms:
Defeat, Down, Killing, Obliterate,
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• Killer
- (n.) One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.
- (n.) A voracious, toothed whale of the genus Orca, of which several species are known.
Synonyms:
Grampus, Sea wolf, Slayer,
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• Killow
- (n.) An earth of a blackish or deep blue color.
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