kill

Definition for kill

verb as in deprive of existence; destroy

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assassinate, drown, execute, get, hit, massacre, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, wipe out

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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

verb as in turn off; cancel

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stop

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annul, cease, counteract, deaden, defeat, extinguish, forbid, halt, negative, neutralize, nix, nullify, prohibit, quash, quell, recant, refuse, revoke, ruin, smother, stifle, still, suppress, veto

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X out, shut off, turn out

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Just this week, Walters announced that schools in his state would have chapters of Turning Point USA, the conservative organization founded by the activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed earlier this month.

From Salon

The shooter "specifically intended to kill ICE agents" and fired at transport vehicles carrying ICE personnel, federal and detainees, he said.

From BBC

The Houthi-run government's health ministry denounced what it called Israel's "brutal crime", saying civilian facilities and residential buildings were hit and that eight people were killed.

From BBC

The blaze destroyed some 1,600 structures and killed three people.

From Los Angeles Times

At least 65,502 Palestinians, about half of them women and children, have been killed by Israeli military action in Gaza since then, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.

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