| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
Synonyms: |
X-out, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with, do in, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, immolate, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out, zap |
Antonyms: |
bear, create, give birth |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | turn off; cancel |
Synonyms: |
annul, cease, counteract, deaden, defeat, extinguish, forbid, halt, negative, neutralize, nix, nullify, prohibit, quash, quell, recant, refuse, revoke, ruin, scotch, shut off, smother, stifle, still, stop, suppress, turn out, veto |
Antonyms: |
begin, initiate, start, turn on |
| Main Entry: | killing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | murder |
Synonyms: |
assassination, bloodshed, bumping off, capital punishment, carnage, execution, extermination, homicide, manslaughter, massacre, slaughter, slaying |
| Main Entry: | killing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
killing, red, bloodstained, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody, cruentous, cynegetic, deadly, deathly, ensanguined, fatal, gory, halieutic, homicidal, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, piscatorial, piscatory, sanguinolent, sicarious, slaughterous, sporting, suicidal, unhealthy, venatic
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| Concept: | [Destruction of life; violent death] Killing. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
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-nouns
killing; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, bloodshed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue., massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism., deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution (capital punishment); judicial murder; martydom., butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner (punishment); maneater, apache, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.]., regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide., suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust., suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging; lapidation., deadly weapon (arms); Aceldama., [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles, abattoir., fatal accident, violent death, casuality.
-verbs
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., strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown., saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword., shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coup de grâce., behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas (execute)., hunt, shoot., cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of., give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood., 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.
-adjectives
killing; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood-stained, bloodthirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory., mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal., sporting; piscatorial, piscatory.
-adverbs
in at the death.
-phrases
"assassination has never changed the history of the world" [Disraeli].
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| Main Entry: | abolish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do away with or put an end to |
Synonyms: |
abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, call off, cancel, destroy, disestablish, dissolve, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, extinguish, extirpate, finish, inhibit, invalidate, kill, negate, nix, nullify, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, prohibit, put an end to, put kibosh on, put the kibosh on, quash, repeal, repudiate, rescind, revoke, scrub, set aside, squelch, stamp out, subvert, supersede, suppress, terminate, undo, vacate, vitiate, void, wipe out, zap |
Antonyms: |
confirm, continue, enact, establish, institute, legalize, promote, ratify, support, uphold |
| Main Entry: | amuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | entertain; make laugh |
Synonyms: |
break one up, charm, cheer, crack up, delight, divert, fracture, gladden, grab*, gratify, interest, kill*, knock dead, make roll in the aisles, occupy, panic*, please, put away, regale, slay, tickle, wow* |
| Notes: | the first meaning of amuse was 'to divert the attention of in order to mislead,' 'delude, deceive' and now means 'entertain, make smile or laugh'; bemuse means 'confuse, bewilder, puzzle' |
Antonyms: |
anger, annoy, bore, dull, tire, upset |
| Main Entry: | annul |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | void an agreement |
Synonyms: |
abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, blot out, call off, cancel, countermand, declare, delete, discharge, dissolve, efface, erase, expunge, get off the hook, invalidate, kill, negate, neutralize, nix, nullify, obliterate, quash, recall, render null and void, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, undo, vacate, vitiate, wipe out |
Antonyms: |
keep, restore, retain, revalidate, validate |
| Main Entry: | assassinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | murder prominent or important person |
Synonyms: |
bump off, do in, eliminate, execute, gun down, hit, kill, knock off, liquidate, slaughter, slay |
| Main Entry: | attract |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | draw attention |
Synonyms: |
allure, appeal to, bait, beckon, beguile, bewitch, bring, captivate, charm, come on, court, drag, draw, enchant, endear, engage, enthrall, entice, entrance, exert influence, fascinate, freak out, give the come-on, go over big, grab, hook, induce, interest, intrigue, inveigle, invite, kill, knock dead, knock out, lure, magnetize, make a hit with, mousetrap, pull, rope in, score, seduce, send*, slay, solicit, spellbind, steer, suck in, sweep off one's feet, tempt, turn on, vamp, wile, wow* |
Antonyms: |
repel, repulse |