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Killing   /kˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Kill  v. t.  (past & past part. killed; pres. part. killing)  
1.
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay. "Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!"
2.
To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. "To kill thine honor." "Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares."
3.
To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind; new sound insultation killed the loud noises from outside. "Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him."
4.
To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
5.
To waste or spend unprofitably; usually used of time; as, he killed an hour waiting for the doctor to see him.
6.
To cancel or forbid publication of (a report, article, etc.), after it has been written; as, they killed the article after getting threats of a lawsuit.
To kill time, to busy one's self with something which occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without tediousness.
Synonyms: To murder; assassinate; slay; butcher; destroy. To Kill, Murder, Assassinate. To kill does not necessarily mean any more than to deprive of life. A man may kill another by accident or in self-defense, without the imputation of guilt. To murder is to kill with malicious forethought and intention. To assassinate is to murder suddenly and by stealth. The sheriff may kill without murdering; the duelist murders, but does not assassinate his antagonist; the assassin kills and murders.


noun
killing  n.  
1.
The act or process of causing a living organism to die.
2.
An unusually large gain in a financial or business transaction or enterprise; as, she made a killing trading cattle futures.


adjective
Killing  adj.  Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. "Those eyes are made so killing." "Nothing could be more killingly spoken."





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"Killing" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of heads of the brave Hungarians who fell there, declaring that she joyfully exhibited it to the company as a memento which she wears on her very arm, to cherish in eternal memory the pleasure she derived from the killing of those heroes at Arad. This very fact may give you a true knowledge of the character of that woman, and this is the second claim to the ladies' sympathy for oppressed humanity and for my ...
— Select Speeches of Kossuth • Kossuth
... "Excelsior,"—the Excelsiors won by ten tallies, I should say, the return match to come off at Smithville the next month,—and then looked at the meagre form and wan countenance of their critic, I thought to myself, "Dolorosus, my boy, you are killing something besides Time, if you ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859 - [Date last updated: August 7, 2005] • Various
... He's the biggest man in the world! He's bigger than emperors and kings! They—why the biggest thing they can do is to kill all their strongest, bravest men. He's so much bigger than kings, that he can take men they shoot to pieces and put them together again. Killing men ain't much! Anybody can do killing! Look at him making folks live! ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... a lot of reasons to be afraid all my time. I am dreadfully nervous now; I am not trusting anybody. I suppose you haf been killing ...
— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy
... quarter.] the President's starboard forecastle bowgun was fired by Commodore Rodgers himself; the corresponding main-deck gun was next discharged, and then Commodore Rodgers fired again. These three shots all struck the stern of the Belvidera, killing and wounding nine men,—one of them went through the rudder coat, into the after gun-room, the other two into the captain's cabin. A few more such shots would have rendered the Belvidera's capture certain, but when the President's ...
— The Naval War of 1812 • Theodore Roosevelt


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