as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
Otherwise, lady beetles and ladybugs can actually help out your garden by eating up aphids, the small and sap-sucking insects that can kill off plants.
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Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
However, in the final scene, the mutant baby returns to kill off half of them in a brutal sequence.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
This phenomenon comes thanks to a li'l thing known as allelopathy, an offensive mechanism in which plants (or other organisms) release biochemicals that kill off other competing plants in the immediate vicinity.
—Ben Coxworth
october 20, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Will July completely kill off the ubiquitous AirTag?
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
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Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
However, in the final scene, the mutant baby returns to kill off half of them in a brutal sequence.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
This phenomenon comes thanks to a li'l thing known as allelopathy, an offensive mechanism in which plants (or other organisms) release biochemicals that kill off other competing plants in the immediate vicinity.
—Ben Coxworth
october 20, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
Will July completely kill off the ubiquitous AirTag?
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
Verb
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But two shootings of US citizens and scenes of unrest in Minnesota are blotting out any hope of that.—
Shelby Talcott,
semafor.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Totality will last two minutes and 18 seconds as the moon moves directly between Earth and the sun to blot out the latter.—
Marcia Dunn,
Fortune,
28 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Thousands of English troops were being slaughtered in the trench warfare against Germany.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
15 Jan. 2026
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Guatemalans who opposed the reforms slaughtered labor leaders, politicians and others who had supported Árbenz and Arévalo.—
Aaron Coy Moulton,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is massacring young people and destroying Iran’s future.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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One of them, the Luisita Golf Course and Country Club, was built over a former sugar plantation where 14 striking workers were massacred in 2004.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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Usual starting center Neemias Queta was active after being listed as probable with an illness, but head coach Joe Mazzulla rolled with the rookie, whose clutch plays in overtime Friday night helped Boston put away the Nets.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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The Christmas china has been stored and the Santas have been put away until next year.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Managers certainly still take out problem coyotes, the ones that are aggressive toward people or become dependent on pets as a food source, but in most cities these are still a tiny percentage of the total coyote population.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Russia has only intensified its attacks in recent weeks, targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure to take out power with the winter cold at its most intense.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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As the Universe expands and cools, the cross-section drops, and eventually, dark matter stops annihilating away or interacting with anything else in any appreciable way.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Everything there fell apart and perished, as though the steppe were a field of deadly frequency, annihilating, on a molecular level, any object that happened into it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Midway through, Clinton is bumped off at a monastery while dressed as a monk in Raquel Welch drag, and his guests must unravel the crime.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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Smith, a tall 25-year-old gay Black man determined to have a fun night on the town, picks up a bag of coke and immediately does a bump off his key.—
Ana Osorno,
Them.,
21 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Gene Caballero is a landscaping expert and founder of GreenPal, an on-demand lawn mowing company.—
Nishaa Sharma,
The Spruce,
26 Jan. 2026
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When one member deployed to Kosovo, the others mowed his family’s grass.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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