killed off

verb

past tense of kill off
as in blotted out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for killed off
  1. blotted out
  2. knocked off
  3. slaughtered
  4. put away
  5. bumped off
  6. annihilated
  7. decimated
  8. massacred
Verb
  • Ancient caravan routes are now mere remnants, quickly blotted out by the path of red trucks.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • Vanessa Van Helsing wakes up from a coma to discover that a volcanic eruption has blotted out the sun, letting vampires prey 24/7.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of blotted out
Verb
  • The Braves knocked off Corona Centennial in the championship game.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • Still undersized for his height, Essengue was knocked off his line by bulkier forwards such as Boozer while attempting to drive baseline to the basket.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
Definition of knocked off
Verb
  • The Greeks waited inside, and when the Trojan horse was brought inside the city walls, Odysseus and the Greeks snuck out, opened the gates of the city to the waiting Greek army, and slaughtered the Trojans to win the war.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
  • The one where a man, his mother, and his entire army are slaughtered by deceit?
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of slaughtered
Verb
  • Ecuador finally came to the party after struggling to put away their chances in their first two games.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • In 1985, some 42 million watched the Royals put away the Cards.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Definition of put away
Verb
  • Handre Pollard's grubber was scooped up by center Jesse Kriel, who bumped off two Scots to score.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
  • Andrew Peeke got bumped off the puck behind the net by Alex Tuch on Thompson’s second goal.
    — Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
Definition of bumped off
Verb
  • Instead, El Fasher was annihilated.
    — Janine di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026
  • The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake.
    — Curbed editors, Curbed, 23 June 2026
Definition of annihilated
Verb
  • The previously unbeaten Seminoles were decimated by player opt-outs, and the game simply carried no weight.
    — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
  • The exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox date back to the 1948 founding of Israel, when a small number of students sought to revive the Jewish scholarship system after it was decimated during the Holocaust.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of decimated
Verb
  • At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 June 2026
Definition of massacred
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