kill

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Meaning

Synonyms

turn off

extirpate

shoot dead

make the final blow

stab to death

belt down

cut off power

bolt down

kill with poison

drink down

quiten

rase

rid of

set aright

shoot to death

be broken

cut the throat of

cut to ribbons

cut wood

dash to pieces

lay waste to

make dirty

make vanish

pierce through

skin an animal

starve to death

take one’s life

vote against

smear with blood

without intention

make string

take a life

break the neck

commit regicide

end one’s life

make die

fade down

thump out

take life

destroy completely

dying-out

knock rotten

kill statement

slay shoot

manslaughter

Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɪl/
Etymology

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”). * Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”). * Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell). * Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole). Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

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