kill

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈkɪl/|[ˈkʰɪɫ]    /ˈkɪl/|[ˈkʰɪɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of kiln. alt-of,alternative,rare
    — 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.
  2. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea. New-York
    — The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
  3. The act of killing.
    — The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
  4. Specifically, the death blow.
    — The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
  5. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
    — The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
  6. An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed. countable
    — confirmed kills
  7. 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.
  1. To put to death; to extinguish the life of. transitive
    — Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
  2. To render inoperative. transitive
    — He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
  3. To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate. figuratively,transitive
    — The editor decided to kill the story.
  4. To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate. excessive,figuratively,transitive
    — That night, she was dressed to kill.
  5. To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt. excessive,figuratively,intransitive,transitive
    — These tight shoes are killing my feet.
  6. To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. figuratively,transitive
    — 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.
  7. To use up or to waste. transitive
    — I'm just doing this to kill time.
  8. To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat. figuratively,informal,transitive
    — Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate.
  9. To force a company out of business. transitive
  10. To punish severely. excessive,figuratively,informal,transitive
    — My parents are going to kill me!
  11. 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. transitive
    — 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.
  12. To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay. transitive
    — 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.
  13. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
    — When comics fail, they "die"; when they succeed, they "kill."
  14. To cause to assume the value zero. informal,transitive
  15. To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network. Internet,transitive
  16. To deadmelt.
  17. To sexually penetrate in a skillful way. slang
    — I felt on her big fat fanny Pulled out the jammy and killed the punanni
  18. To exert oneself to an excessive degree. informal,reflexive
    — Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.

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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”).
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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