WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It was created and is being maintained at the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George A. Miller.
The purpose is twofold: to produce a combination of dictionary and thesaurus that is more intuitively usable, and to support automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.
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belt down, bolt down, defeat, down, drink down, kill, killing, obliterate, pop, pour down, putting to death, shoot down, stamp out, toss off, vote down, vote out, wipe out,
1. NOUN. (kill)
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
"the pilot reported two kills during the mission"
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2. NOUN. (kill)
the act of terminating a life
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deathblow, coup de grace, death, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, dispatch, despatch, fell, suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation, slaughter, poisoning, suffocation, asphyxiation, sacrifice, ritual killing, electrocution, decapitation, beheading, genocide, race murder, racial extermination,
3. VERB. (kill)
end or extinguish by forceful means
"Stamp out poverty!"
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4. VERB. (kill)
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
"Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
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5. VERB. (kill)
cause to cease operating
"kill the engine"
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6. VERB. (kill)
tire out completely
"The daily stress of her work is killing her"
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7. VERB. (kill)
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
"kill these lines in the President''s speech"
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8. VERB. (kill)
drink down entirely
"He downed three martinis before dinner"
"She killed a bottle of brandy that night"
"They popped a few beer after work"
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9. VERB. (kill)
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"
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killing, kill, putting to death, cause of death, killer, killer, slayer, killing, violent death, killing, kill, putting to death,
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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, 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, impale, stake, dismember, martyr, murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove, assassinate, execute, put to death, draw, quarter, draw and quarter, lynch, shoot, pip, electrocute, fry,
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10. VERB. (kill)
cause the death of, without intention
"She was killed in the collision of three cars"
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11. VERB. (kill)
deprive of life
"AIDS has killed thousands in Africa"
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12. VERB. (kill)
hit with great force
"He killed the ball"
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13. VERB. (kill)
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
"She killed the ball"
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14. VERB. (kill)
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
"The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!"
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15. VERB. (kill)
be the source of great pain for
"These new shoes are killing me!"
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16. VERB. (kill)
thwart the passage of
"kill a motion"
"he shot down the student''s proposal"
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17. VERB. (kill)
be fatal
"cigarettes kill"
"drunken driving kills"
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