kill
kill is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kiln. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A kiln.
- noun. A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
- transitive verb. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
- transitive verb. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
- transitive verb. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
- transitive verb. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
- noun. the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
"the pilot reported two kills during the mission"
- noun. the act of terminating a life
- verb. end or extinguish by forceful means
"Stamp out poverty!"
- verb. destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
"Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
- verb. cause to cease operating
"kill the engine"
- verb. tire out completely
"The daily stress of her work is killing her"
- verb. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President's speech"
- verb. drink down entirely
"He downed three martinis before dinner"
"She killed a bottle of brandy that night"
- verb. cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
"This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"
"The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"
- verb. cause the death of, without intention
"She was killed in the collision of three cars"
- verb. deprive of life
"AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
- verb. hit with great force
"He killed the ball"
- verb. hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
"She killed the ball"
- verb. overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
"The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"
- verb. be the source of great pain for
"These new shoes are killing me!"
- verb. thwart the passage of
"kill a motion"
"he shot down the student's proposal"
- verb. be fatal
"cigarettes kill"
"drunken driving kills"
Synonyms
killing, obliterate, down, pop, defeat
Common word forms
kills, killed, killer, killing, killable
Words from these letters
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