kill off

verb

Definition of kill offnext
as in to blot out

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Recent Examples of kill off Look at the scary stuff related to your finances, ask yourself better questions about your spending habits, and kill off the part of yourself that likes to self-sabotage. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026 Dry weather will kill off wasp prey, including other insects and vegetation, before the wasps get to it. — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026 However, the decision to kill off Stevenson’s character was entirely because the actor was leaving the show. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 30 July 2026 Strip the entire operation down to the chassis, scrap every piece of worth for real prospect capital, and kill off this franchise’s addiction to fly-by-night decision-making. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for kill off
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
  1. blot out
  2. cut down
  3. slaughter
  4. massacre
  5. put away
  6. take out
  7. annihilate
  8. bump off
Verb
  • Luxor, Egypt Luxor, in southern Egypt, will enjoy the longest duration of totality during the solar eclipse that will blot out the sun in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Africa on August 2.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Deafheaven broke the mold by introducing blinding light to rock music’s darkest corner, but after wave upon wave of imitators, the only subversion left is to blot out the sun.
    — Patrick Lyons, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of blot out
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  • If the war does indeed come to an end and oil keeps falling, Warsh might get breathing room for rate cuts down the line.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 16 June 2026
  • Courtesy of the Abu Haikal family Haikal said his family’s own homes have been targeted in settler attacks, including having stones thrown at their home, their crops destroyed, trees cut down and property stolen.
    — Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 16 June 2026
Definition of cut down
Verb
  • Until then, the RSF will, based on its actions over the past two decades, continue to slaughter tens, if not hundreds, of thousands more.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
  • In one of the many scary dream sequences David Naughton has while becoming a werewolf, his Jewish family back home is slaughtered by Nazi monsters.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of slaughter
Verb
  • Earlier this summer, a gang had massacred at least 47 residents and kidnapped dozens more in the town of Kenscoff, on the main southern route out of the capital.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The people in Silo 17 were brutally massacred by the members of Silo 1.
    — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of massacre
Verb
  • After DeMatteo’s pair of aces, Prohaska put away kills for the 24th and 25th points.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
  • That was only possible due to the strength of Ossoff and Cooper, who both raised gobs of money and put away their opponents weeks ago.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of put away
Verb
  • Back at the dinner table, Matt takes out his irritation with Kaylee on the servers, his co-workers, and several rounds of drinks.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2026
  • After sentencing, the judge ordered Hanson taken out of the courtroom.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of take out
Verb
  • Magnetic fields and an extreme vacuum — so extreme that no pressure gauge can measure it — ensure that the antiprotons don’t prematurely encounter ordinary protons, which would annihilate both.
    — George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Hell, Ella Langley has been annihilating the Billboard charts lately.
    — Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of annihilate
Verb
  • There were two--count 'em, two--stories bumping off the top of the front page Tuesday, both about election observers.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a moment in the movie when the Ben Affleck character has bumped off her lover.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of bump off

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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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