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kill
Synonyms and Antonyms of kill
- during the war more soldiers were killed by disease than anything else
bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]
annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite
assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate
euthanize (also euthanatize), put down
do away with, do for [chiefly British], make away with
- the Senate killed the bill by a single vote
- I think that paragraph is irrelevant, so kill it
blot out, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, root (out), rub out, wipe out
bleep, blip, clip, cut, excise, remove
bowdlerize, censor, clean (up), expurgate, launder, redact, red-pencil
- the long hike up the mountain just about killed us
- with his dark good looks he would positively kill the ladies
- kill the engine before it overheats
Synonym Discussion of kill
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- killed in an accident
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- frost killed the plants
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- slew thousands of the Philistines
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- convicted of murdering a rival
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- terrorists assassinated the Senator
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- dispatched the sentry with one bullet
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- executed by lethal gas
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