Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word KILL
KILL
Definitions of KILL
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- The act of killing.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To cause great pain, discomfort or distress to; to hurt.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbole, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive, sports) 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.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- A surname.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using KILL in a Sentence
- AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.
- He also subdued Yenisei Kyrgyz forces in 709, after their disobedience had to reconquer and kill their Qaghan in 710.
- His films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996), as well as cult favorites such as Sisters (1972), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Casualties of War (1989), and Carlito's Way (1993).
- Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.
- Dressed to Kill is a 1980 American erotic psychological thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.
- 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah al-Hakami.
- 835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
- In Old Norse texts, Fenrir plays a key role during the events of Ragnarök, where he is foretold to assist in setting the world aflame, resulting in the collapse of humanity and society, and kill the god Odin.
- The turn-based game has the player trying to avoid fatal bottomless pits and "super bats" that will move them around the cave system; the goal is to fire one of their "crooked arrows" through the caves to kill the Wumpus.
- 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
- A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a file used by some Usenet reading programs to discard articles matching some unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header lines.
- In its best-known form, it is a green, crystalline material originating from Superman's home world of Krypton that emits a unique, poisonous radiation that can weaken and even kill Kryptonians.
- In his 1999 memoir Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, Peltier admitted to participating in the shootout but said he did not kill the FBI agents.
- 1407 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, agree to a truce, but Burgundy would kill Orléans three days later.
- However, if the immune system or "good" microbiota are damaged in any way (such as by chemotherapy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or antibiotics being taken to kill other pathogens), pathogenic bacteria that were being held at bay can proliferate and cause harm to the host.
- Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill or control the growth of malignant cells.
- Her breakthrough in the action thriller Speed (1994) led to leading roles in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping (1995), and the dramas A Time to Kill (1996) and Hope Floats (1998).
- It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cybernetic assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future.
- This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.
- A weapon, arm, or armament is any implement or device that is used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill.
- The wolverine has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself.
- January 14 – Orsini affair: Piedmontese revolutionary Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people.
- March 22 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (one third of the colony's population), and burn the Henricus settlement.
- He tries to kill her through a planned shipwreck, but when she survives, he has her executed and frames it as a suicide.
- April 19 – The freedman Milichus betrays the Pisonian conspiracy led by Gaius Calpurnius Piso to kill Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
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