kills off

verb

present tense third-person singular of kill off
as in cuts down

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  1. blots out
  2. knocks off
  3. slaughters
  4. annihilates
  5. takes out
  6. murders
  7. massacres
  8. decimates
Verb
  • Using sine wave generators and pink lighting so saturated it essentially blots out all other color and shadow, Young and Zazeela created a space that’s somehow both static and full of life.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The phenomenon, where smoke blots out the blue sky overhead, making the air appear milky-white or even orange, has become a relatively regular fixture of summers where out-of-control wildfires in the West bring noxious smoke downwind.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Definition of blots out
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  • The sale will knocks off up to thirty percent off usual prices and will run through July 20th.
    — Brad Bourque, The Verge, 14 July 2026
  • All of the Jays’ run-scoring knocks off Weathers also came on two-strike counts.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 June 2026
Definition of knocks off
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  • Notably, this happens after Odysseus slaughters Penelope’s suitors and tells Telemachus to kill the female slaves who have slept with them.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • When a wandering wolf threatens his fragile peace and slaughters his flock, Gaspard, blinded by rage, embarks on a perilous quest for vengeance — one that will lead him to the farthest reaches of his sorrow and guilt.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 22 June 2026
Definition of slaughters
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  • And that’s a lot of energy to shed as a vehicle comes blaring back into Earth’s thick atmosphere, a process that typically annihilates objects returning from space unless they are precisely designed to survive the trip.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • Matter is so dominant in our universe that any antimatter typically encounters matter quickly and annihilates.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
Definition of annihilates
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  • As a result, if a student takes out a loan from a private financial institution that’s not federally guaranteed, that loan will often be provided at a higher interest rate.
    — Annie Nova, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Rick Devens is the type of dude who always takes out the bigger target.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of takes out
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  • This included three of the women involved in the brutal Manson murders — Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten — all scheduled to be gassed.
    — M. Sara Rosenthal, STAT, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Joe almost murders Morgan (Sherry and Morgan in the same episode?
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of murders
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  • The transition to the climax, when Odysseus massacres his wife’s suitors with the help of Athena’s magic and son Telemachus (Alan Stenson), is also fairly rushed.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
  • The Polish government considers the Volhynia and Galicia massacres a genocide, and holds Bandera equal in infamy to Nazi war criminals of the same era.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
Definition of massacres
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  • Maggie Greene was introduced in The Walking Dead season 2 as an open-hearted survivor who was just beginning to grapple with the barbaric nature of her new reality after the Wildfire virus decimates humanity.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026
  • When Andy scoffs at a room of Runway employees choosing between two very similar belts, Miranda soundly decimates her with a monologue about the ubiquitousness and utility of fashion.
    — Maya Phillips, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of decimates
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