Kill

Definition: Kill

Kill

Noun

1. The act of terminating a life.

2. The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission".

Verb

1. Cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays".

2. Thwart the passage of; "kill a motion".

3. Cause the death of, without intention; "She was killed in the collision of three cars".

4. End or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!".

5. Be fatal; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills".

6. Be the source of great pain for; "These new shoes are killing me!".

7. Overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; "The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!".

8. Hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; "She killed the ball".

9. Hit with great force, in sports; "He killed the ball".

10. : deprive of life; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa".

11. : drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night".

12. : mark for deletion, rub off, or erase, as of writings; "kill these lines in the President's speech".

13. : tire out completely; "The daily stress of her work is killing her".

14. : cause to cease operating; "kill the engine".

15. : destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "kill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Kill

Activity

Look sharp; have all one's eyes about one; (vigilance); rise, arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march, kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity; lose no time, not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash off; make haste; do one's best take pains; (exert oneself); do wonders, work wonders.

Amusement

While away the time, beguile the time; kill time, dally.

Care

Phrase: quis custodiet istos custodes?; "care will kill a cat"; ni bebas agua que no veas; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!"; "the incessant care and labor of his mind".

Celebration

Rejoice; kill the fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox.

Endearment

Verb: caress, fondle, pet, dandle; pat, pat on the head, pat on the cheek; chuck under the chin, smile upon, coax, wheedle, cosset, coddle, cockle; make of, make much of; cherish, foster, kill with kindness.

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Killing

Verb: kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher, slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life; make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.

Die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

Ornament

In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche.

Ostentation

Dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_, chic.

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

Sociality

Entertain; give a party; Noun: be at home, see one's friends, hang out, keep open house, do the honors; receive, receive with open arms; welcome; give a warm reception; n. to kill the fatted calf.

Unskillfulness

Not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire.

Mistake; take the shadow for the substance; (credulity); bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old bottles.

Crosswords: Kill

German (mandrakes).

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don't think you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

I guess we'll just have to kill her. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

We're gonna kill him. You understand that (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You said you were waiting for me. What were you going to do? Kill me, drink my blood, all that stuff (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I think I'll kill myself (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Meeting you, with a view to a kill (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran)

I KNOW YOU KILL FOR ME (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

She's dressed to kill (Flavor of the Weak; performing artist: American Hi-Fi)

Maybe I've set myself up for the kill (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel)

He might blow up and kill this man. ("Achy Breaky Heart"; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. (references; author: Mark Twain)

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high. (references; author: Japanese Proverb)

Deer Kill 17,000 (references; author: unknown)

Don't kill the dream… Execute it! (references; author: unknown)

I'm an apathetic sociopath - I'd kill you if I cared. (references; author: unknown)

Kill (2002)

Out for a Kill (2003)

I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill (1974)

To Kill the King (1974)

Winter Kill (1974)

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (performing artist: U2)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (reference)

• Kill Or Get Killed (reference)

• If Looks Could Kill (reference)

• Luring to Kill (reference)

• How Not to Kill Your Houseplants: The Foolproof Guide to Lush, Healthy Plants (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Collector's Edition (reference)

• A View to a Kill (reference)

• Licence to Kill (reference)

• To Kill a Mockingbird (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pleasure Kill (reference)

• Plotting to Kill Your Friends (reference)

• Will to Kill (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Duke Nukem - Time To Kill (reference)

• Nancy Drew Secrets Can Kill (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Treating pets with insecticidal dust to kill fleas that could come into contact with humans can help control the spread of plague bacteria. Credit: CDC.

Cotton treated with 0.5% Permethrin is collected by rodents to take back to their nests to kill fleas, preventing the transmission of Bubonic Plague & Colorado Tick Fever by such fleas and ticks to other rodents and people. Credit: CDC.

Mac Smith - dressed to kill What hydrographers wear for a night out on the town. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Indian River Lagoon is in the background of this image. The lagoon is one of the largest lagoons on the east coast of Florida and is prime habitat for Snook and Tarpon. The lagoon waters are estuarine. This image shows Brazilian Pepper stumps to the right of the volunteer's feet. Once the pepper bushes have been cut an herbicide will be applied to kill the bush. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Salt buildup from a 'saline seep' area. Saline seeps form when groundwater laden with salt percolates to the surface and then evaporates. The heavy consentrations of salt then kill grasses and expose rangeland to wind erosion. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Leather-making is an ancient craft, but it's met up with some state-of-the-art technology. Electron beam radiation, we've found, can replace the salt solutions now used to kill bacterial growth-much to the benefit of the environment. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Root-rotting fungi can weaken, stunt, or kill sugar beet plants. Here, geneticist Leonard Panella evaluates sugar beet plants for resistance to the fungal disease Rhizoctonia root rot. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Three men looking over a night's kill ... / CDC photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The wrong choice can Kill you. : Aids - Don't Get it!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Members of the carrier's Ordnance Department pose with decorated 2000-pound bombs, during Korean War operations, 9 March 1951. Messages painted on the bombs are: "Greetings from PhilCee"; "Happy Easter"; and "Listen! To This One it will Kill you". Among the planes parked in the background are F4U-4Bs of Fighter Squadron 113 (VF-113). Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A man with a sword in his hand demands my purse in the high-way, when perhaps I have not twelve pence in my pocket: this man I may lawfully kill. (Second Treatise of Government)

"True" Socialism appeared to kill these two birds with one stone. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If the enemy can think and feel, you might hesitate to kill them

I do not believe that I have the right to kill a man, but I feel it a duty to exterminate evil

If not, you can kill him without hate, and quickly

I did not kill your husband

Grampa took up the land, and he had to kill the Indians and drive them away

That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Irradiation can also kill T. spiralis. (references)

Some viruses kill the cell they invade. (references)

Antibiotics are used to kill the bacteria. (references)

Business

Demand for advance payment may kill a sale. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

Santos fled the country in March 2000 after announcing that he was the target of a FARC guerrilla group plot to kill him. (references)

Zimbabwe

In 2000 Bernard Masara confessed to the editorial staff of The Daily News that he had been hired by the CIO to kill the editor. (references)

Bangladesh

On May 20, activists from the ruling party student front, the BCL, assaulted two Dhaka University correspondents and threatened to kill one of them. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

They do not hesitate to kill if the victims resist. (references)

Rwanda

Even ordinary citizens were called on to kill their neighbors by local officials and government-sponsored radio. (references)

Togo

On March 25, 1993, armed Togolese dissident commandos based in Ghana attacked Lome's main military camp and tried unsuccessfully to kill President Eyadema. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

Sheiman then ordered Pavluchenko to kill Zakharenko. (references)

Sri Lanka

Attacks by the LTTE continued to kill civilians outside of LTTE-controlled areas. (references)

Afghanistan

In other areas, combatants sought to kill rival commanders and their sympathizers. (references)

Minorities

Togo

Many citizens believe that Nigerian Ibos kill young women, drain their blood, and steal their sex organs to perform voodoo to accumulate wealth, health, or protection. (references)

Political Economy

Uganda

LRA attacks decreased during the year; however, the LRA continued to kill and abduct civilians, including children. (references)

Iraq

The Government continued to be responsible for disappearances and to kill and torture persons suspected of--or related to persons suspected of--economic crimes, military desertion, and a variety of other activities. (references)

Political Rights

Colombia

Guerrillas are suspected in at least three plots to kill right wing, independent presidential candidate Alvaro Uribe. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Husbands are known to kill their wives even for trivial offenses. (references)

South Africa

The issue of rape was covered widely in the media during the year, although NGO's working with rape victims reported a decrease in attention from 2000. There were a number of demonstrations against rape; one followed the murder of a young girl by gang members who previously had raped her and threatened to kill her if she reported the crime. (references)

Worker Rights

Guatemala

Leaders of the group repeatedly threatened to kill some of the union leaders. (references)

Colombia

The suit alleges that the company has colluded with paramilitaries to harass, intimidate, kidnap, and kill union leaders over the past 10 years. (references)

Brazil

According to leaders of the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers, there is an organized campaign in the state of Para to kill rural labor leaders. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "kill": attempt to kill ♦ dressed to kill ♦ fill or kill order ♦ hard to kill ♦ hunter kill ♦ Kill Buck ♦ kill by the sword ♦ Kill Devil Hills ♦ kill file ♦ kill game ♦ kill off ♦ kill oneself ♦ kill out ♦ kill outright ♦ kill probability ♦ kill smb. ♦ kill the bill ♦ kill the fatted calf ♦ kill the goose lays the golden eggs ♦ kill the goose that lays golden eggs ♦ kill the goose that lays the golden eggs ♦ kill the time ♦ kill time ♦ kill two birds with one stone ♦ kill with a sword ♦ kill with kindness ♦ knock down and kill ♦ lamb kill ♦ Leck Kill ♦ lure and kill technique ♦ road kill ♦ to kill silk cocoons ♦ to kill the fatted calf ♦ To kill time ♦ West Kill. Additional references.

Beginning with "kill": kill-dee, kill-devil, kill-fever, Kill-joy, kill-joys, kill-off, kill-or-cure, kill-pricking, Kill-the-rat, kill-your-own-mother.

Ending with "kill": over-kill, shoot-to-kill.

Containing "kill": father-i-want-to-kill-you, Verti-kill-ar-tar.

Albanian

kafshë gjahu e vrarë, zhduk (bump off, conceal, disperse, efface, eradicate, hide, obliterate, overturn, Rob, stave off, steal, wipe, wipe out), vrasje (battue, despatch, dispatch, homicide, killing, murder, sleep), vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), i jap fund (abate, break up, close, cut, discontinue, disestablish, dissolve, end, finish, overthrow, quench, stop), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مات في ساحة المعركة, ‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ‏قضى على (settle), ‏حظر (ban, bar, debar, embargo, enjoin, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forewarn, outlaw, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, suppress, taboo), ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏ذبح (evert, killing, massacre, murder, slain, slaughter, slay, stick), ‏إصطاد عصفورين بحجر واحد (kill two birds with one stone), ‏أمات (crucify, deaden), ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), ‏أسقط (bring down, discount, dump, head off, knock over, lay low, leave out, let down, let fall, lodge, mow, omit, overthrow, overturn, parachute, project, push down, push over, screw off, shed, toss). (various references)

Bulgarian 

омахвам (finish off), плячка (booty, fish, haul, loot, pillage, plunderage, prey, prize, quarry, ravin, spoil, spoils, swag, trophy), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, infuse, nip, perish, scald, steam, touch, wither), погубвам (destroy, ruin, subvert, undo), правя впечатление (impose, impress, register, shine, strike), премахвам (cut out, delete, do away, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, level, make away with, obviate, put down, remove, rid, rip out, smooth, undo), провалям (circumvent, countermine, damn, defeat, pip, shipwreck, vote down), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ramrod, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), животно убито на лов, заглушавам (black out, deaden, deafen, drown, dull, intercept, jam, jam out, obstruct, overgrow, silence), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), неутрализирам (counteract, negative, neutralize, nullify), стрелям (discharge, fire, loose, pop, pot, shoot), коля (butcher, massacre, murder, slaughter, stick), развалям ефекта на, спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), смайвам (amaze, baffle, bedazzle, dazzle, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, knock, knock out, rock, stagger, stun), убийство (assassination, homicide, killing, removal), убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), умъртвявам (mortify), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, extinguish, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), унищожен неприятелски самолет, утрепвам се, зачерквам (black out, blank, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, score out, scratch off, strike, write off). (various references)

Chinese 

獮 (to hunt), 杀害 (Killed, killing, slain, slay), 打死 , 戮 , 戡 (suppress). (various references)

Czech

zabít. (various references)

Danish

dræbe (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Dutch

ombrengen (liquidate, slay), doodmaken (liquidate, slay), doden (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Esperanto

mortigi (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Faeroese

drepa (butcher, dip, immerse, liquidate, slaughter, slay, soak). (various references)

Finnish

tappaa (put to death, slay), surmata (massacre, put to death, slay), saalis (bag, booty, catch, haul, prey, spoils). (various references)

French

tuer (to kill), abattre (to kill). (various references)

Frisian

deameitsje (liquidate, slay), deadzje (liquidate, slay). (various references)

German

töten (deaden, kill off, killing, liquidate, slain, slay, to kill, zap), vernichten (abrogate, annihilate, blast, blight, consume, crush, damn, defeat, destroy, do away with, exterminate, kill off, obliterate, put down, quash, to annihilate, to blast, to crush, to defeat, to demolish, to destroy, to kill, undo), abschuss (blast off, firing, knocking out, launch, launching, loosing off, offal, shooting down). (various references)

Greek 

σκοτώνω (murder, slay). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשחת (destroy, hurt, ruin, spoil, waste), לקטול (slay), להמית (mortify, slay), להכות (affict, beat, defeat, flap, hit, hurt, knock, plaque, smite, strike, stroke, swipe, wound), להרוג (cut down, murder, slay), לרצוח (murder, slay), הרג (killing, massacre, murder, slaying). (various references)

Hungarian

megöl (murder, put to death, slain, slew, to account for, to check sy out, to cold-cock, to deep-six, to do for, to dump, to ice, to kill, to martyr, to murder, to put over, to put to death, to put to the sword, to slay, to snuff, to unlive, unlive), gyilkol (murder, to kill), elejtett vad (quarry), elejtés (dropping), ölés (killing), öl (butcher, fathom, lap, murder, slaughter, to butch, to kill). (various references)

Indonesian

menewaskan (assassinate, murder, slay), membunuh (assassinate, butcher, delete, erase, murder, plug, put out, slay), melumpuhkan (demolish, hamstring, paralyze), berbunuhan. (various references)

Irish

maraigh (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Italian

uccidere (bump off, commit suicide, despatch, dispatch, get killed, kill oneself, liquidate, murder, slay), ammazzare (liquidate, pot, slay). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

劉 (axe), 殺 (butcher, diminish, murder, reduce, slice off, split, spoil), キリル文字 (Cyrillic character, Kirchhoff, Kirin, quilt, quilting). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さつ (butcher, counter for books, diminish, murder, note, paper money, police, reduce, remain, slice off, split, spoil, stay, temple, volume), りゅう (axe, dragon, manner of, method of, promoted rook, styleof), キル . (various references)

Korean 

죽이기. (various references)

Malay

membunuh (liquidate, slay), bunuh (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Manx

marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), marr. (various references)

Maori

patu-a (to kill). (various references)

Maya

kiins (to kill). (various references)

Norwegian

drepe. (various references)

Papiamen

mata (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Pig Latin

illkay.(various references)

Portuguese

matar (bump off, butcher, close out, despatch, destroy, dispatch, do in, liquidate, murder, quench, rub out, shoot, slaughter, slay), matança (blood, felling, killing, massacre, slaughter). (various references)

Romanian

nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), îndurera (afflict, aggrieve, distress, grieve, pain), înnebuni de durere, animal omorât, asasina (assassinate, bump off, murder, slay), calma (allay, appease, becalm, calm, chasten, compose, ease, mollify, pacify, quiet, salve, settle, smooth, smooth down, sober, soften, soothe, steady, still, temper, tranquillize), da carne, deconecta (declutch, disconnect, put out, uncouple), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, quench, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), istovi (crock, exhaust, fag, fag out, haze, jade, knock off, rack, try, wither), ucidere (assassination, bane, crime, death, killing, slaughter), nu se potrivi cu (misbecome), omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, do in, execute, exhaust, finish, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture), pune capãt (compose, pip), respinge (alienate, beat back, blackball, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out), spulbera (depolarize, dispel, dissipate, scatter), strica efectul, tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), ucide (assassinate, butcher, croak, destroy, execute, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, smother, spoil, strangle, suffocate), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references)

Russian 

убивать (assassinate, assassinating, do in, do to death, liquidate, murder, put death, slain, slay, smite). (various references)

Scottish

spad (brain, fell, kill on the spot), reang (a boat-rib, a rank, a wrinkle in the face: "a rib"). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usmrtiti, ubiti (assassinate, bag, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, make away, murder, put away, slay, wipe out, zap), ubijanje (killing), smečovati, pobiti (confute, disprove, rebut, refute), plen (booty, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin, spoil, spoils, swag, trophy), oboriti (bowl over, bring down, chop, fell, knock down, lay low, override, overthrow, overturn, roll over, send down, subvert, throw down, topple, trample down, upend, vail), lov (battue, chase, hunt, hunting, shikar, shoot, shooting), broj ubijenih životinja. (various references)

Spanish

matar (butcher, carry off, cut down, destroy, dispose of, do in, homicide, knock off, lay, liquidate, murder, postmark, pot, shoot, slaughter, slay, swat). (various references)

Sranan

kiri (liquidate, murder, slay). (various references)

Swedish

dräpa (liquidate, slay), avliva (liquidate, pass away, put to death, scotch, slay), slå ihjäl, döda (cut down, dispatch, pip, put to death, slay, zap). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ตาย, การเข่นฆ่า, ฆ่า (bag, kill off). (various references)

Turkish

öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Turkmen 

цldьrmek, gyrylmak (bursting), gyrmak (grate). (various references)

Ukrainian

убивати (deaden, finish off, homicide, murder, pick off, put to death, slay, thug), розгромити (overwar, smash, wallop, whack), відстріл звіра, знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, extinguish, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither), забій (coalface, killing, slaughter), забивати (butcher, choke, knock in, ram, slaughter), здобич (bag, booty, capture, catch, loot, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin, swag). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc làm cho tiêu thì giờ (kill-time), trò tiêu khiển (diversion, kill-time). (various references)

Welsh

lladd (cut, liquidate, slaughter, slay). (various references)

Yucatec

kinsik (liquidate, slay). (various references)

Zulu

-bulala (liquidate, slay). (various references)

caedo, -cidere, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, concisam, concisas, concise, concisus, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, extincta, extinctae, extincti, extinctum, extinctus, extinguas, extinguat, extinguentis, extinguere, extingueretur, extinguet, extinguetur, extinguit, extinguuntur, extinxerunt, feri, feriam, ferias, feriatis, feriatur, feriet, ferietis, ferietque, ferio, ferire, feriret, feriretis, feris, feriunt, interemerunt, interemistis, interfecerant, interfecere, interfecerint, interfecero, interfecerunt, interfeci, interfecisti, interfecistis, interfecit, interfecta, interfectae, interfecti, interfectique, interfectis, interfectisque, interfecto, interfectorum, interfectos, interfectum, interfectus, interfice, interficere, interficerem, interficerent, interficerentur, interficeres, interficeret, interficeretur, interfici, interficiam, interficiamini, interficiamus, interficiant, interficiantur, interficias, interficiat, interficiatur, interficiebam, interficiebamque, interficiebant, interficiebantur, interficiebat, interficiemus, interficiendi, interficiendum, interficiens, interficient, interficientem, interficientes, interficientium, interficientque, interficientur, interficies, interficiet, interficietur, interficit, interficite, interficitis, interficiunt, interim, interimerent, interimo, iugulabant, iugulantur, iugulare, iugulati, iugulatum, iugulaverunt, iugulavit, iugulemur, iuguolo, mortificabis, mortificamur, mortificare, mortificat, mortificate, mortificati, mortificationem, mortificatis, mortificatus, necare, neco, necare, necavi, necatum, occidam, occidamus, occidas, occidat, occidatis, occidatur, occide, occidebant, occidebat, occidebatis, occidendi, occidendum, occidendus, occident, occidente, occidentem, occidentis, occidentium, occidentur, occiderant, occiderat, occidere, occiderem, occiderent, occiderentur, occideres, occideret, occideretis, occideretur, occiderimus, occideris, occiderit, occideritis, occidero, occiderunt, occides, occidet, occidetis, occidetur, occidi, occidimus, occidis, occidisse, occidissem, occidissent, occidisses, occidisset, occidisti, occidistis, occidit, occidite, occiditis, occiditque, occidunt, occisa, occisi, occisis, occisorum, occisos, occisum, occisus, peracto, peremerunt, peremit, peremptores, perimeretur. (various references)

acwellan, cwellan, gefyllan, heawan, hynan, ofslean. (various references)

kille. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "kill": killdee, killdeer, killdeers, killdees, killed, killer, killers, killick, killicks, killie, killies, killifish, killifishes, killing, killingly, killings, killjoy, killjoys, killock, killocks, kills. (additional references)

Words ending with "kill": lambkill, outkill, overkill, roadkill, skill, subskill, winterkill. (additional references)

Words containing "kill": lambkills, multiskilled, outkilled, outkilling, outkills, overkilled, overkilling, overkills, painkiller, painkillers, painkilling, roadkills, semiskilled, skilled, skilless, skillessness, skillessnesses, skillet, skillets, skillful, skillfully, skillfulness, skillfulnesses, skilling, skillings, skills, subskills, unskilled, unskillful, unskillfully, unskillfulness, unskillfulnesses, winterkills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Kill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: akil, ekil, ikol, kal, kalb, Kalili, Kalk, kall, Kallu, kalv, keil, Keill, kel, Kelk, kello, kewl, kial, kibl, kil, kild, kilg, kili, kilj, killa, kille, killi, killo, Killom, Killum, killy, kilm, kily, kiml, kinl, Kirl, kli, klia, klic, Klik, Klip, koil, kol, koll, Kololo, Kul, kull, kulla, kyl, kyll, Kyllo, Ukwill. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ilk, ill.

-2 letters: li.

+1 letter: kills, krill, skill.

+2 letters: alkali, killed, killer, killie, krills, likely, skills.

+3 letters: alkalic, alkalin, alkalis, alkylic, balkily, bulkily, eellike, elflike, flakily, hillock, inkwell, kellies, killdee, killers, killick, killies, killing, killjoy, killock, lankily, lawlike, leakily, leglike, likable, liplike, luckily, milkily, outkill, owllike, rollick, silkily, skilful, skilled, skillet, slickly, sulkily.

+4 letters: alkalies, alkalify, alkaline, alkalise, alkalize, alkaloid, backfill, balkline, balmlike, billhook, bowllike, calflike, clawlike, claylike, cockbill, cultlike, duckbill, feltlike, folklife, folklike, folksily, glenlike, gluelike, gulflike, halolike, hawkbill, hellkite, hillocks, hillocky, inkwells, kallidin, keloidal, kickball, killdeer, killdees, killicks, killings, killjoys, killocks, kilomole, kilovolt, knelling, knolling, lacelike, ladylike, lakelike, lambkill, lamblike, lardlike, lavalike, leaflike, lifelike, likeable, likelier, lilylike, limekiln, linelike, linkable, lionlike, loftlike, lordlike, millcake, millwork, outkills, overkill, palmlike, playlike, pluckily, plumlike, roadkill, rollicks, rollicky, saltlike, seallike, selamlik, sicklily, silklike, skilless, skillets, skillful, skilling, slablike, slinkily, soullike, stalkily, subskill, taillike, tilelike, unlikely, veillike, wolflike, woollike.