Killing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Murder; homicide.
  • n. A kill; a quarry.
  • n. A sudden large profit: made a killing on the stock market.
  • adj. Intended or apt to kill; fatal.
  • adj. Thoroughly exhausting: a killing pace.
  • adj. Informal Hilarious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of kill.
  • adj. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
  • adj. Devastatingly attractive.
  • adj. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
  • n. an instance of someone being killed
  • n. A large amount of money.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
  • n. The act or process of causing a living organism to die.
  • n. An unusually large gain in a financial or business transaction or enterprise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of slaying or depriving of life.
  • Depriving of life; deadly; doing execution.
  • Overpowering; irresistible: generally in the sense of fascinating, bewitching, charming, so as to attract and compel admiration: as, killing coquetries.
  • So terrible or frightful as almost to kill one; exceedingly severe; exhausting; wearing.
  • n. In the manufacture of steel, the practice of stopping or preventing the evolution of gas in the steel. Steel is most commonly killed with silicon or aluminium.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of terminating a life
  • adj. very funny
  • n. a very large profit
  • n. an event that causes someone to die
  • Equivalent
    humourous    humorous   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    earnings    lucre    profit    net income    net profit    net    profits    human death    fatality   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fatal    captivating    irresistible   
    Verb Stem
    kill   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Trilling    billing    chilling    dilling    distilling    drilling    filling    fulfilling    grilling    hilling   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shooting    assassinations    homicide    massacre    beating    bombings    burglary    rape    executions    robbery