Kill \Kill\, n.
   1. The act of killing.

            "There is none like to me!" says the cub in the
            pride of his earliest kill.           --Kipling.
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   2. An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.

            If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all
            in thy pride.                         --Kipling.
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	Kill \Kill\ (k[i^]l), n.
   A kiln. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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	Kill \Kill\, n. [D. kil.]
   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.
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	Kill \Kill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Killed (k[i^]ld); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Killing.] [OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill,
   strike; perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf.
   Quell), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the
   head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to
   kill with the ax.]
   1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or
      by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to
      slay.
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            Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words !
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill
      the sale of a book. "To kill thine honor." --Shak.
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            Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares. --Shak.
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   3. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in
      seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind; new
      sound insultation killed the loud noises from outside.
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            Be comforted, good madam; the great rage,
            You see, is killed in him.            --Shak.
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   4. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize;
      as, alkali kills acid.
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   5. To waste or spend unprofitably; -- usually used of time;
      as, he killed an hour waiting for the doctor to see him.
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   6. To cancel or forbid publication of (a report, article,
      etc.), after it has been written; as, they killed the
      article after getting threats of a lawsuit.
      [PJC]

   To kill time, to busy one's self with something which
      occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without
      tediousness.

   Syn: To murder; assassinate; slay; butcher; destroy. -- To
        Kill, Murder, Assassinate. To kill does not
        necessarily mean any more than to deprive of life. A man
        may kill another by accident or in self-defense, without
        the imputation of guilt. To murder is to kill with
        malicious forethought and intention. To assassinate is
        to murder suddenly and by stealth. The sheriff may kill
        without murdering; the duelist murders, but does not
        assassinate his antagonist; the assassin kills and
        murders.

	

	kill
     n 1: the act of terminating a life [syn: killing, putting to
          death]
     2: the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or
        missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"
     v 1: 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"
     2: thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the
        student's proposal" [syn: shoot down, defeat, vote
        down, vote out]
     3: cause the death of, without intention; "She was killed in
        the collision of three cars"
     4: end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
        [syn: stamp out]
     5: be fatal; "cigarettes kill"; "drunken driving kills"
     6: be the source of great pain for; "These new shoes are
        killing me!"
     7: overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; "The
        comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"
     8: hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in
        racket games; "She killed the ball"
     9: hit with great force; "He killed the ball"
     10: deprive of life; "AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
     11: drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before
         dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night";
         "They popped a few beer after work" [syn: toss off, pop,
          bolt down, belt down, pour down, down, drink
         down]
     12: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in
         the President's speech" [syn: obliterate, wipe out]
     13: tire out completely; "The daily stress of her work is
         killing her"
     14: cause to cease operating; "kill the engine"
     15: destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating
         artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"

	

	310 Moby Thesaurus words for "kill":
   KO, abbreviate, abridge, absorb, adolescent stream, amuse,
   annihilate, arroyo, asphyxiate, assassinate, bane,
   beasts of venery, beck, beguile, bereave of life, big game,
   black out, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, blot out, blue-pencil,
   bottle up, bourn, bowdlerize, braided stream, braining, branch,
   brook, brooklet, bump off, burn, butcher, call off, cancel,
   carry away, carry off, censor, channel, chloroform, choke,
   choke off, clamp down on, close, complete, conclusion, constitute,
   consume, convulse, cork, cork up, coup de grace, crack down on,
   creek, crick, cross out, crush, cut, cut down, cut off, cut short,
   damp, damp down, deaden, dealing death, death, deathblow, decimate,
   decree, defeat, delete, delight, denouement, deprive of life,
   destroy, destruction, destruction of life, devastate, dispatch,
   dispose of, divert, do away with, do for, do in, do to death, down,
   drop the curtain, drown, dull, edit, edit out, eliminate, enact,
   enact laws, end, end off, enliven, entertain, eradicate, erase,
   euthanasia, execute, execution, exhaust, exhilarate, expunge,
   expurgate, exterminate, extermination, extinguish, fag out,
   fatigue, filibuster, fill, finalize, finish, finish off,
   flow of blood, flowing stream, fluviation, fold up, fracture one,
   fresh, freshet, gag, game, get it over, get over with, get rid of,
   get the floor, get through with, gill, give the quietus, gore,
   have the floor, hit, hold down, hugger-mugger, hurt, hush, hush up,
   hush-hush, ice, idle, immolate, immolation, jump on, kayo,
   keep down, keep under, kibosh, killing, knife, knock dead,
   knock off, knock out, lapidation, launch into eternity, lay low,
   lazy stream, legislate, liquidate, lobby through, logroll,
   loosen up, lynch, make away with, martyr, martyrdom, martyrization,
   martyrize, massacre, meandering stream, mercy killing, midchannel,
   midstream, millstream, moving road, muffle, murder, muzzle,
   navigable river, negative, neutralize, nip, nullify, obliterate,
   occupy, omit, ordain, pain, pass, perfect, pigeonhole, pocket,
   poison, poisoning, polish off, pour water on, prey, purge,
   put away, put down, put in force, put paid to, put through,
   put to death, put to sleep, quarry, quash, quell, quench, race,
   racing stream, railroad through, raise a laugh, raise a smile,
   ravage, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, remove from life,
   repress, rescind, ritual killing, ritual murder, river, rivulet,
   roll logs, rub out, ruin, rule against, run, rundle, runlet,
   runnel, sacrifice, scrag, shoot, shoot down, shooting, shush, shut,
   shut down, shut down on, shut off, sike, silence, sit down on,
   sit on, slaughter, slay, slaying, smash, smother, snuff out,
   solace, spend, spill stream, squash, squelch, stanch, starve,
   stifle, still, stoning, strangle, stream, stream action, streamlet,
   strike, strike off, strike out, stultify, subdue,
   subterranean river, suffocate, suppress, switch off, table,
   take life, take off, take the floor, taking of life, termination,
   the hunted, throttle, tickle, tire out, titillate, to, torment,
   torture, turn off, use up, venery, veto, victim, void, wadi, waste,
   watercourse, waterway, weary, while away, wipe out, wow,
   yield the floor, zap

	

	KILL, v.t.  To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.