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The time it takes for something to kill something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: time to kill
Antonyms: none provided
To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive
Examples
- She had nothing better to do, so she went to the bowling alley to kill time.
- 1982, Adele Geras, The Green behind the Glass (U.S. title: Snapshots of Paradise), Lions Teen Tracks, She’s up there now, thought Bella, up in that freezing studio, killing time till the child comes home, mooning, dreaming, turning disjointed thoughts over in her head, and we'll pay for it.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Azerbaijani:
vaxt öldürmək
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Azerbaijani:
başını qatmaq
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Catalan:
fer temps
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Chinese Mandarin:
打發時間 /打发时间
(dǎfā shíjiān)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Chinese Mandarin:
殺時間 /杀时间
(shā shíjiān)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Chinese Mandarin:
挨時間 /挨时间
(ái shíjiān)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Finnish:
tappaa aikaa
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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French:
tuer le temps
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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French:
passer le temps
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Galician:
matar o tempo
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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German:
Zeit totschlagen
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Greek:
σκοτώνω τον καιρό
(skotóno ton kairó)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Hungarian:
elüti az időt
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Icelandic:
drepa tímann
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Italian:
ingannare il tempo
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Japanese:
時間をつぶす
(jikan o tsubusu)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Kazakh:
уақыт өлтіру
(uaqyt öltıru)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Korean:
시간을 보내다
(sigan-eul bonaeda)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Norwegian:
slå ihjel tid
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Polish:
zabijać czas
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Polish:
zabić czas
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Portuguese:
matar o tempo
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Romanian:
omorî timpul
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Russian:
убива́ть вре́мя
(ubivátʹ vrémja)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Russian:
уби́ть вре́мя
(ubítʹ vrémja)
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Spanish:
matar el tiempo
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Swedish:
fördriva tid
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Swedish:
slå ihjäl tid
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Swedish:
döda tid
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Thai:
ฆ่าเวลา
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Turkish:
vakit öldürmek
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Vietnamese:
giết thời gian
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
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Vietnamese:
giết thì giờ
— make time seem to pass more quickly by doing nothing important
