kill meaning
EN
[kɪl] [-ɪl] 
US WKill
- Kill may refer to:
- The act of causing the death of a living organism
- homicide, one human killing another
- NounPLkills
- The act of killing.
- The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
- Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
- A kiln.
- The act of killing.
- VerbSGkillsPRkillingPT, PPkilled
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
- There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- Kirk Douglas, (actor, as Peter), The Fury (1978):
- Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm. Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter? Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- The editor decided to kill the story.
- The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
- My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- That night, she was dressed to kill.
- That joke always kills me.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
- It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- I'm just doing this to kill time.
- He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
- Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
- You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic) To punish severely.
- My parents are going to kill me!
- (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
- (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (computing, Internet, IRC) To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- By grounding to the shortstop, the twin killing ended the inning.
- The Sirex woodwasp kills pines and sometimes other conifers by introducing a toxic mucus and fungus when the female lays her eggs through the bark and into the sapwood.
- Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of kill in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "kill" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.