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say it: kil
kill is a verb and noun meaning "cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly". It is pronounced /ˈkɪl/ — kil. It carries 18 recorded senses.
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
“The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!”
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
“She killed the ball”
sport
cause the death of, without intention
“She was killed in the collision of three cars”
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
“kill these lines in the President's speech”
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
“Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods”
the act of terminating a life
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
“the pilot reported two kills during the mission”
the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for kill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.