kill
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
"This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"Types:- eliminate; annihilate; extinguish; eradicate; wipe out; decimate; carry off
- decimate
- drown
- massacre; slaughter; mow down
- erase; wipe out
- butcher; slaughter
- poison
- stone; lapidate
- poison
- commit suicide
- dispatch
- zap; vaporize
- sacrifice
- take off
- tomahawk
- destroy; put down
- saber; sabre
- overlie; overlay
- brain
- put away; put to sleep
- neutralize; neutralise; liquidate; waste; knock off; do in
- exterminate; kill off
- smother; asphyxiate; suffocate
- strangle; strangulate; throttle
- decapitate; behead; decollate
- impale; stake
- dismember
- martyr
- shed blood
- murder; slay; hit; dispatch; bump off; off; polish off; remove
- assassinate
- execute; put to death
- draw; quarter; draw and quarter
- lynch
- shoot; pip
- electrocute; fry
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