kill - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile

Synonyms

• kill

More generic

• destruction
• devastation

Noun

the act of terminating a life

Synonyms

• kill
• killing
• putting to death

More generic

• conclusion
• ending
• termination

More specific

• asphyxiation
• beheading
• coup de grace
• death
• deathblow
• decapitation
• despatch
• dispatch
• electrocution
• euthanasia
• fell
• genocide
• homicide
• mercy killing
• poisoning
• race murder
• racial extermination
• ritual killing
• sacrifice
• self-annihilation
• self-destruction
• slaughter
• suffocation
• suicide

Noun

the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal

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• kill

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• body
• dead body

Verb

end or extinguish by forceful means

Synonyms

• kill
• stamp out

More generic

• end
• terminate

Verb

destroy a vitally essential quality of or in

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• kill

More generic

• destroy
• destruct

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• kill

Verb

cause to cease operating

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• kill

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• cut
• switch off
• turn off
• turn out

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• kill

Verb

tire out completely

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• kill

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• beat
• exhaust
• tucker
• tucker out
• wash up

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• kill

Verb

mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

Synonyms

• kill
• obliterate
• wipe out

More generic

• take away
• take out

Verb

drink down entirely

Synonyms

• belt down
• bolt down
• down
• drink down
• kill
• pop
• pour down
• toss off

More generic

• drink
• imbibe

Verb

cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly

Synonyms

• kill

More specific

• annihilate
• asphyxiate
• assassinate
• behead
• brain
• bump off
• butcher
• carry off
• commit suicide
• decapitate
• decimate
• decollate
• destroy
• dismember
• dispatch
• do in
• draw
• draw and quarter
• drown
• electrocute
• eliminate
• eradicate
• erase
• execute
• exterminate
• extinguish
• fry
• hit
• impale
• kill off
• knock off
• lapidate
• liquidate
• lynch
• martyr
• massacre
• mow down
• murder
• neutralise
• neutralize
• off
• overlay
• overlie
• pip
• poison
• polish off
• put away
• put down
• put to death
• put to sleep
• quarter
• remove
• saber
• sabre
• sacrifice
• shed blood
• shoot
• slaughter
• slay
• smother
• stake
• stone
• strangle
• strangulate
• suffocate
• take off
• throttle
• tomahawk
• vaporize
• waste
• wipe out
• zap

Also See

• kill off

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• buy the farm
• cash in one's chips
• choke
• conk
• croak
• decease
• die
• drop dead
• exit
• expire
• give-up the ghost
• go
• kick the bucket
• pass
• pass away
• perish
• pop off
• snuff it

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• kill

Verb

cause the death of, without intention

Synonyms

• kill

More specific

• electrocute

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• kill

Verb

deprive of life

Synonyms

• kill

More specific

• strike down

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• kill

Verb

hit with great force

Synonyms

• kill

More generic

• hit

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• kill

Verb

hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games

Synonyms

• kill

More generic

• hit

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• kill

Verb

overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration

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• kill

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• overcome
• overpower
• overtake
• overwhelm
• sweep over
• whelm

Verb

be the source of great pain for

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• kill

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• ache
• hurt
• suffer

Verb

thwart the passage of

Synonyms

• defeat
• kill
• shoot down
• vote down
• vote out

More generic

• blackball
• negative
• veto

Verb

be fatal

Synonyms

• kill

More generic

• be

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