KILLS OFF Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

kills off

verb

present tense third-person singular of kill off

as in cuts down

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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
Extragalactic astronomers refer to a region behind our Milky Way as the 'Zone of Avoidance' because dust between our galaxy's stars blots out, or deeply reddens, light from more distant galaxies behind it.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 May 2026

Definition of blots out

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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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When Zuko takes out the guards to help Team Avatar escape, Azula shows up as the two begin an epic, fiery battle combining Zuko’s red flames with her blue ones.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
But Castle brought backup this time, and Esposito (Jon Huertas) takes out Tyson through a window.

— EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026

Definition of takes out

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Moriarty has reported on the yogurt shop murders for over 30 years.

— Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 June 2026
Not the family stuff, like Natalie’s spontaneous nipple piercing after making out with Cady’s maybe-daughter, Nevaeh (Malia Pyles), who later murders her own mother after kissing her, for way too long, on the mouth.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026

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