kill (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 35
def cause to die
def put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
examples This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank
The farmer killed a pig for the holidays
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 9 Somebody ----s somebody
Frame - 10 Something ----s somebody
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Cause die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
Derivationally related form kill → killable; kill → killer; kill → killing; kill → killing
Derivationally related form kill → kill; kill → killer
Also see kill → kill off
Hyponym eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off; decimate; drown; massacre, slaughter, mow down; erase, wipe out; butcher, slaughter; poison; stone, lapidate; poison; commit suicide; dispatch; zap, vaporize; sacrifice; take off; tomahawk; destroy, put down; saber, sabre; overlie, overlay; brain; put away, put to sleep; neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in; exterminate, kill off; smother, asphyxiate, suffocate; strangle, strangulate, throttle; decapitate, behead, decollate; impale, stake; dismember; martyr; shed blood; murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove; assassinate; execute, put to death; draw, quarter, draw and quarter; lynch; shoot, pip; electrocute, fry
Verb Group kill
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Derivationally related form killable → kill; killing → kill; killing → kill; killer → kill
Derivationally related form kill → kill; killer → kill
Hypernym eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off; decimate; drown; massacre, slaughter, mow down; erase, wipe out; butcher, slaughter; poison; stone, lapidate; poison; commit suicide; dispatch; zap, vaporize; sacrifice; take off; tomahawk; destroy, put down; saber, sabre; overlie, overlay; brain; put away, put to sleep; neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in; exterminate, kill off; smother, asphyxiate, suffocate; strangle, strangulate, throttle; decapitate, behead, decollate; impale, stake; dismember; martyr; shed blood; murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove; assassinate; execute, put to death; draw, quarter, draw and quarter; lynch; shoot, pip; electrocute, fry
Entailment dress, dress out
Verb Group kill

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