Thesaurus
kill
Synonyms and Antonyms of kill
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to deprive of life
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
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to reject by or as if by a vote
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to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it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
4
to use up all the physical energy of
wear to a frazzle
5
to attract or delight as if by magic
6
to cause to stop functioning
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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