| Main Entry: | snuff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
Synonyms: |
detect, extinguish |
| Main Entry: | douse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, extinguish with liquid |
Synonyms: |
blow out, deluge, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, plunge, put out, quench, saturate, slop, slosh, smother, snuff, snuff out, soak, sop, souse, spatter, splash, splatter, squench, steep, submerge, submerse, wet |
| Notes: | douse first meant 'knock, punch, strike' and now means 'to extinguish or wet thoroughly; dowse means to look for water or minerals with a divining rod |
Antonyms: |
dry |
| 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: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
Synonyms: |
abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste* |
Antonyms: |
guard, preserve, protect, save |
| Main Entry: | slay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, assassinate, butcher, cut off, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do*, down*, eliminate, erase, execute, exterminate, finish, hit, knock off, liquidate, massacre, murder, neutralize, put away, rub out, slaughter, snuff, waste* |
Antonyms: |
bear, create, give birth |
| Main Entry: | smell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perceive with the nose |
Synonyms: |
breathe, detect, discover, find, get a whiff, identify, inhale, nose, scent, sniff, snuff |
| Main Entry: | smother |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extinguish; cover, hide |
Synonyms: |
asphyxiate, choke, collect, compose, conceal, control, cool, cork, douse, envelop, heap, hush up, inundate, keep back, kill, muffle, overwhelm, quash, quell, quench, rein, repress, restrain, shower, shroud, simmer down, snuff, squelch, stamp out, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, surround, throttle |
Antonyms: |
light, start, uncover |
| Main Entry: | sniff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breathe in |
Synonyms: |
detect, inhale, inspire, nose, scent, smell, snift, snuff, snuffle |
Antonyms: |
hold nose |
| Main Entry: | bump off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intentionally murder someone |
Synonyms: |
blot out, blow away, chill, deep-six, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do in, dust, grease, hit, ice, kill, knock off, murder, off, polish off, rub out, snuff, snuff out, stretch out, waste, wax, whack, wipe out, zap |
| Main Entry: | rub out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispose of |
Synonyms: |
blow away, bump off, chill, deep-six, dispatch, do away with, do in, dust, erase, grease, hit, ice, kill, knock off, murder, nuke, off, snuff, snuff out, stretch out, take care of, waste, wax, whack, zap |