Entry Word: kill

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to deprive of life <the soldier was killed in battle>

Synonyms croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, slay

Related Words annihilate, blot out, butcher, decimate, massacre, slaughter, wipe out; cut down, finish, nip, snuff; assassinate, execute, murder, smite

Phrases do away with

Near Antonyms restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive; nurture

Antonyms animate

2 to reject by or as if by a vote <the senate killed the bill> — see negative 1
3 to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it <I don't like that paragraph, so kill it> — see X (out)