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Recent Examples of Synonyms for killed off
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Vanessa Van Helsing wakes up from a coma to discover that a volcanic eruption has blotted out the sun, letting vampires prey 24/7.
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During her first bombing, Ginny had run for shelter into a perfume shop, where the proprietress methodically moved each bottle from the streetfront vitrine into a neat line on the floor as the dust from the percussive bombs blotted out the sun.
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The club also knocked off 30 per cent, which probably helped convince a lot of fans to return.
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Some headstones around it have been knocked off their bases.
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Chicken looks cheaper Ranchers have sent cattle to be slaughtered, rather than keeping them to reproduce, because of the severe weather and high prices.
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Some 2 million people, nearly a quarter of the population, were slaughtered or starved to death.
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Schools could permit phones for specific instructional purposes while requiring them to be put away during other parts of the school day.
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That means items that frequently get wet, like hedge clippers, gardening gloves, and water toys, won’t mold and mildew when they’re put away.
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Andrew Peeke got bumped off the puck behind the net by Alex Tuch on Thompson’s second goal.
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Ioane charged and offloaded to Tommaso Menoncello, who bumped off Elliot Daly and passed inside to midfield partner Marin to finish off.
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Instead, El Fasher was annihilated.
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The boardwalk was annihilated up and down the peninsula, crushed into pieces and twisted up like a wooden snake.
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The chicks are part of a global effort to reintroduce the species, which was decimated by the invasive brown tree snake.
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When the Spanish settlers decamped for Cuba in 1763 after ceding Florida to the English, the few surviving Tequesta, their numbers decimated by 200 years of captivity and slavery, conflict and ill treatment, are believed to have departed with them.
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At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.
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Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town.
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“Killed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/killed%20off. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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