kill
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈkɪl/|[ˈkʰɪɫ]
美 /ˈkɪl/|[ˈkʰɪɫ]
英文释义
名词 n.
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Alternative form of kiln.
— This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes, dishes.
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A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
— The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
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The act of killing.
— The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
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Specifically, the death blow.
— The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
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The result of killing; that which has been killed.
— The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
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An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
— confirmed kills
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The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
— As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
动词 v.
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To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
— Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
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To render inoperative.
— He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
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To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
— The editor decided to kill the story.
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To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
— That night, she was dressed to kill.
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To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
— These tight shoes are killing my feet.
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To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
— It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
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To use up or to waste.
— I'm just doing this to kill time.
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To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
— Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate.
- To force a company out of business.
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To punish severely.
— My parents are going to kill me!
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To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
— That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
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To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
— As the ball was delivered deep into St Kilda's forward line by Billings, Bontempelli had position on the goal line, with a pack forming in front of him. He decided to fly but didn't kill the ball, leaving it to spill where he had been positioned moments earlier. Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.
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To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
— When comics fail, they "die"; when they succeed, they "kill."
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To deadmelt.
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To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
— I felt on her big fat fanny Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
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To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
— Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.
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词汇关系
近义词
bag
baptize
bereave of life
blight
bring down
bury
cack
compromised to a permanent end
croak
crush
dash
dead
demolish
destroy
dispose of
do
do in
dust
eliminate
end
eradicate
ex
exterminate
finish
finish off
flatten
grease
lay waste to
make away with
merc
mortify
neutralize
obliterate
off
pay off
pick off
polish off
pop off
punch someone's ticket
put an end to
put down
put someone out of their misery
put six feet under
put to sleep
ravage
ruin
scotch
scupper
scuttle
send to eternity
send to hell
send to the grave
send to the great beyond
send to the next life
shut up
slime out
smash
smite
snuff
squash
stiff
stop someone's clock
take
terminate
terminate with extreme prejudice
top off
torpedo
take care of
take down
take out
waste
wax
wet
wipe out
wreck
反义词
下位词
cull
instakill
instant kill
harvest
assassinate
burke
Charlie Kirk
do away with
duppy
hit
ice
liquidate
murder
settle
execute
put to death
drown
dunk
send to a watery grave
dangle
hang
lynch
swing
scrag
string up
send to the gallows
throw a necktie party
trine
choke
garrote
garrotte
strangle
throttle
asphyxiate
smother
stifle
suffocate
crucify
blast
blow a hole in
blow away
blow apart
blow to kingdom come
blow up
cap
fusillade
gun down
light up
mow down
plug
put a bullet in
pump full of lead
put before a firing squad
shoot
shoot down
smoke
zip
burn
fire
flame
immolate
scorch
defenestrate
disembowel
dismember
draw and quarter
eviscerate
jugulate
gut
rip up
tear up
tear apart
tear limb from limb
vivisect
behead
decapitate
guillotine
lop head off
put on the block
bayonet
impale
knife
put to the sword
run through
saber
stab
electrocute
fry
send to the chair
lapidate
stone
suicide
suicided
butcher
cut down
euthanize
massacre
pull the plug on
send to an early grave
send to the iron maiden
catastrophic kill
firepower kill
giant kill
mission kill
mobility kill
one-hit kill
thrill kill
kill kit
词源
词源 1
From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
词源 2
Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille, from Old Dutch *killa, from Proto-West Germanic *killjā, from Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ.
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