name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
The act of killing.
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noun
Specifically, the death blow.
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noun
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
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noun
An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
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Usage: countable
Topics: games, gaming, government, military, politics, war
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noun
The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
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Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, volleyball
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noun
A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
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Usage: New-York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal
Qualifier: largely fossilized in place names
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noun
A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
In particular, a waterway with a name ending in kill, such as the Beaverkill or the East Kill.
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Usage: New-York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal
Qualifier: largely fossilized in place names; preceded by the; preceded by the
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noun
Alternative form of kiln.
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Usage: New-York, Northeastern, US, alt-of, alternative, rare
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verb
To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To render inoperative.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
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Usage: excessive, figuratively, transitive
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verb
To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
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Usage: excessive, figuratively, intransitive, transitive
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verb
To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To use up or to waste.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
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Usage: figuratively, informal, transitive
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verb
To force a company out of business.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To punish severely.
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Usage: excessive, figuratively, informal, transitive
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verb
To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
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Usage: transitive
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
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verb
To cause to assume the value zero.
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Usage: informal, transitive
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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verb
To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
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Usage: Internet, transitive
Topics: IRC, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To deadmelt.
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Topics: engineering, metallurgy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
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Usage: slang
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verb
To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
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Usage: informal, reflexive
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noun
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
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Broader terms: destruction, devastation
noun
the act of terminating a life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: killing, putting to death
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Broader terms: termination, ending, conclusion
Narrower terms: deathblow, coup de grace, death, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, dispatch, despatch, fell, suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation, slaughter, poisoning, suffocation, asphyxiation, sacrifice, ritual killing, electrocution, decapitation, beheading, genocide, race murder, racial extermination
verb
end or extinguish by forceful means
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Synonyms: stamp out
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Broader terms: end, terminate
verb
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
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Broader terms: destroy, destruct
verb
cause to cease operating
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Broader terms: switch off, cut, turn off, turn out
verb
tire out completely
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Broader terms: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out
verb
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
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Synonyms: obliterate, wipe out
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Broader terms: take away, take out
verb
drink down entirely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: toss off, pop, bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink down
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Broader terms: drink, imbibe
verb
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
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Narrower terms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off, drown, massacre, slaughter, mow down, erase, butcher, poison, stone, lapidate, 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, bump off, off, polish off, remove, assassinate, execute, put to death, draw, quarter, draw and quarter, lynch, shoot, pip, electrocute, fry
verb
cause the death of, without intention
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Narrower terms: electrocute
verb
deprive of life
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Narrower terms: strike down
verb
hit with great force
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Broader terms: hit
verb
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
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Broader terms: hit
verb
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
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Broader terms: overwhelm, overpower, sweep over, whelm, overcome, overtake
verb
be the source of great pain for
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Broader terms: hurt, ache, suffer
verb
thwart the passage of
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Synonyms: shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out
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Broader terms: veto, blackball, negative
verb
be fatal
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Broader terms: be
History
* As a German and Dutch surname, probably shortened from Kilian. * Also as a German surname, from Kyll in the Eifel mountains, from Latin Celbis. * As a Jewish surname, probably from Yiddish קיל (kil, “cool”).
From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”). * Perhaps from unattested 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”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH-der. Proto-Indo-European *ǵi(H)-l-der. Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ Proto-West Germanic *killjā Old Dutch *killa Middle Dutch kille Dutch kilbor. English kill Borrowing from Dutch kil (formerly spelled kill), from Middle Dutch kille, from Old Dutch *killa, from Proto-West Germanic *killjā, from Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ (“fissure, slit; a type of stream, creek, channel”). Doublet of Kiel. Most place names with kill were derived entirely in Dutch, but many have been subsequently calqued into English or anglicized by folk etymology; for example, Motherkill and Murderkill both likely derive from Dutch *Modderkil (“Mud Creek”) (better preserved in Mudder Kill and Muddy Kill), originally having nothing to do with mothership or murder.
Across languages
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