| kill | |
| 1. v. To put to death; to extinguish the life of. | |
| Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined. | |
| 2. v. To render inoperative. | |
| He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting. | |
| 3. v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate. | |
| The editor decided to kill the story. | |
| The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it. | |
| My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes. | |
| 4. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate. | |
| That night, she was dressed to kill. | |
| That joke always kills me. | |
| 5. v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. | |
| It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad. | |
| It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries. | |
| 6. v. To use up or to waste. | |
| I'm just doing this to kill time. | |
| He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle.". | |
| 7. v. (transitive figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on. | |
| Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer. | |
| Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore. | |
| 8. v. (transitive figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat. | |
| The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations. | |
| 9. v. To force a company out of business. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain. | |
| You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill. | |
| 11. v. (figuratively, informal hyperbole transitive) To punish severely. | |
| My parents are going to kill me! | |
| 12. v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point. | |
| 13. v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy. | |
| 14. v. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero. | |
| 15. v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network. | |
| 16. v. (metallurgy) To deadmelt. | |
| 17. n. The act of killing. | |
| The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives. | |
| 18. n. Specifically, the death blow. | |
| The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head. | |
| 19. n. The result of killing; that which has been killed. | |
| The fox dragged its kill back to its den. | |
| 20. n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally. | |
| 21. n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea. | |
| The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills. | |
| Schuylkill, Catskill, etc. | |
| 22. n. A kiln. | |
