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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