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| Main Entry: | killing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | murder |
| Synonyms: | bloodshed, capital punishment, carnage, execution, homicide, manslaughter, massacre, slaughter, assassination, bumping off, extermination, slaying |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with*, do in*, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off*, put away*, rub out*, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out*, zap*, X-out, garrote, immolate, put to death |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, smother, stifle, still, stop, suppress, turn out, veto, scotch, shut off |
| Antonyms: | begin, initiate, start, turn on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| 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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-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) [more]; judicial murder; martydom., butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner (punishment) [more]; 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) [more]; 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) [more]., 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 [more]; 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: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | blitz, blood, bloodshed, crime, gore, havoc, holocaust, homicide, killing, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, rapine, shambles, slaughter, warfare, annihilation, blood and guts, blood bath, butchering, butchery, extermination, hecatomb, liquidation, offing, search and destroy, slaying, taking out, wasting |
| Main Entry: | manslaughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing without malicious forethought |
| Synonyms: | crime, foul play*, hit*, homicide, killing, murder |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murderous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | arduous, brutal, criminal, cruel, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, killing, lethal, ruinous, savage, strenuous, unpleasant, exhausting, sapping |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | pay dirt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | profit |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, benefit, bottom line*, earnings, gate*, goods*, gravy*, harvest, killing*, net, payoff, proceeds, receipts, return, revenue, score*, split*, surplus, take*, cleanup, winnings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pernicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous, injurious, killing, lethal, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mortal, nefarious, noisome, noxious, offensive, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, sinister, toxic, venomous, virulent, wicked, maleficent, miasmatic, miasmic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | helpful, innocuous, kind, lovable, loving |
| Main Entry: | profit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gain |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, acquisition, advancement, advantage, augmentation, avail, benefit, bottom line*, earnings, gate*, goods*, gravy*, gross, harvest, income, interest, killing, lucre, net, output, percentage, proceeds, product, production, receipt, receipts, remuneration, return, revenue, saving, skim*, split*, surplus, take*, turnout, use, value, velvet*, yield, aggrandizement, cleanup, emoluments, outturn, takings, winnings |
| Antonyms: | loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | success |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favorable outcome |
| Synonyms: | éclat, Easy Street*, accomplishment, achievement, advance, arrival, ascendancy, attainment, bed of roses*, benefit, boom*, consummation, eminence, fame, flying colors*, fortune, fruition, gain, good luck*, gravy train*, happiness, hit, killing, profit, progress, prosperity, realization, reward, savvy, sensation, snap, strike, triumph, victory, walkaway*, win, big hit, clover, do well, good times, grand slam, happy days, lap of luxury, laugher, maturation, successfulness, walkover |
| Antonyms: | failure, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | terminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | final, deadly |
| Synonyms: | check out*, eventual, extreme, fatal, hindmost, incurable, killing, lag, last, latest, latter, lethal, mortal, period, ultimate, utmost, bounding, closing, concluding, limiting, on way out |
| Antonyms: | beginning, initial, opening, starting, reviving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | victory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | win, success |
| Synonyms: | achievement, advantage, ascendancy, bull's-eye, clean sweep, conquest, control, defeat, defeating, destruction, dominion, feather in cap, gain, grand slam, hit, hole in one, killing*, laurels, mission accomplished, overthrow, prize, subjugation, superiority, supremacy, sweep, the gold, triumph, upper hand*, upset, winning |
| Antonyms: | defeat, failure, forfeit, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | win |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | victory |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, conquest, gain, gold*, kill*, killing*, pay dirt*, score, slam, success, sweep, triumph, gold star |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bloodshed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slaughter |
| Synonyms: | bloodbath, carnage, fighting, gore, killing, massacre, murder, onslaught, annihilation, bloodletting, butchery, extermination |
| Antonyms: | peace |
| Main Entry: | persecution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affliction |
| Synonyms: | annoyance, banishment, bashing, exile, expulsion, galling, imprisonment, infliction, killing, maltreatment, massacre, murder, oppression, provoking, teasing, torment, torture, torture, ill-treatment, mistreatment, pestering |
| Antonyms: | help, stimulation, succor |
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win*, conquering, coup, discomfiture, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, score, splash*, success, triumph, win, clean sweep, defeating, grand slam, routing, subdual, subjection, subjugation, takeover, vanquishment |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deadly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing end of life |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, cruel, dangerous, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, ruthless, savage, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent, carcinogenic, death-dealing, mortiferous, pestilential, slaying |
| Antonyms: | harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome, animating, energizing |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
| Synonyms: | ambush, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, destruction, discomfiture, embarrassment, failure, fall, killing*, loss, massacre, mastery, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, setback, slaughter, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, whipping, KO, annihilation, defeasance, downthrow, drubbing, extermination, insuccess, lacing, licking, nonsuccess, paddling, scalping, shellacking, subjugation, thrashing, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whitewashing |
| Antonyms: | conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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