| has gloss | (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"
kill |
| lexicalization | eng: kill |
| has subclass | (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
butcher, slaughter |
| has subclass | (verb) kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband"
poison |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
lapidate, stone |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by its poison; "This mushrooms can poison"
poison |
| has subclass | (verb) kill oneself; "the terminally ill patient committed suicide"
commit suicide |
| has subclass | (verb) kill without delay; "the traitor was dispatched by the conspirators"
dispatch |
| has subclass | (verb) kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting; "in this computer game, space travellers are vaporized by aliens"
vaporize, zap |
| has subclass | (verb) kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
sacrifice |
| has subclass | (verb) prove fatal; "The disease took off"
take off |
| has subclass | (verb) kill with a tomahawk
tomahawk |
| has subclass | (verb) put (an animal) to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down"
destroy, put down |
| has subclass | (verb) kill with a saber
sabre, saber |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by lying on; "The sow overlay her piglets"
overlay, overlie |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by smashing someone's skull
brain |
| has subclass | (verb) kill gently, as with an injection; "the cat was very ill and we had to put it to sleep"
put away, put to sleep |
| has subclass | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was neutralized"
neutralise, liquidate, do in, waste, neutralize, knock off |
| has subclass | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many; "Hitler wanted to exterminate the Jews, Gypsies, Communists, and homosexuals of Europe"
exterminate, kill off |
| has subclass | (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor"
smother, suffocate, asphyxiate |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
throttle, strangulate, strangle |
| has subclass | (verb) cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the Revolution"
decollate, decapitate, behead |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die"
stake, impale |
| has subclass | (verb) separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"
dismember |
| has subclass | (verb) kill as a martyr; "Saint Sebastian was martyred"
martyr |
| has subclass | (verb) kill violently; "They will never stop shedding the blood of their enemies"
shed blood |
| has subclass | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
dispatch, polish off, slay, bump off, hit, off, murder, remove |
| has subclass | (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons; "Anwar Sadat was assassinated because many people did not like his peace politics with Israel"
assassinate |
| has subclass | (verb) kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment; "In some states, criminals are executed"
execute, put to death |
| has subclass | (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him; "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes"
draw, draw and quarter, quarter |
| has subclass | (verb) kill without legal sanction; "The blood-thirsty mob lynched the alleged killer of the child"
lynch |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by firing a missile
shoot, pip |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted"
electrocute, fry |
| has subclass | (verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
extinguish, eradicate, eliminate, wipe out, carry off, annihilate, decimate |
| has subclass | (verb) kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
decimate |
| has subclass | (verb) kill by submerging in water; "He drowned the kittens"
drown |
| has subclass | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
mow down, massacre, slaughter |
| has subclass | (verb) remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915"
wipe out, erase |