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kill
verb as in deprive of existence; destroy
Strongest matches
assassinate, drown, execute, get, hit, massacre, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, wipe out
Strong matches
annihilate, asphyxiate, crucify, dispatch, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, guillotine, hang, immolate, liquidate, lynch, neutralize, obliterate, off, sacrifice, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste, zap
Weak matches
do away with, do in, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out
Example Sentences
She begins with an account of Hamilton’s death and funeral but declines to describe the 1804 duel in which Burr alone may have shot to kill.
At least five people have been killed, including one child, and more than 450 injured after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Bangladesh.
Salehpour and his wife, Sue, maintain she was killed — and they are not alone.
"Customers understand that it's a luxury dish," chef Tomoyuki Takashino said from behind the stove as he skewered an eel he had just killed and filleted.
Before the 2011 quake and tsunami, which killed around 18,000 people, nuclear power generated about a third of Japan's electricity, with fossil fuels contributing most of the rest.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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