KILL Related Words

Find all similar words for KILL with relevant definition, synonyms and same meaning words etc.

Hypernym

  • termination, ending, conclusion

    the act of ending something

  • destruction, devastation

    the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

  • body, dead body

    a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

  • drink, imbibe

    take in liquids

  • take away, take out

    take out or remove

  • exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out

    wear out completely

  • switch off, cut, turn off, turn out

    cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

  • destroy, destruct

    do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

Derivation

  • kill

    deprive of life

  • killing, putting to death

    the act of terminating a life

  • cause of death, killer

    the causal agent resulting in death

  • violent death

    an event that causes someone to die

  • destruction, demolition, wipeout

    an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something

  • obliterable, removable

    able to be obliterated completely

  • eradication, obliteration

    the complete destruction of every trace of something

Hyponym

  • deathblow, coup de grace

    the blow that kills (usually mercifully)

  • death

    the act of killing

  • euthanasia, mercy killing

    the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)

  • homicide

    the killing of a human being by another human being

  • dispatch, despatch

    killing a person or animal

  • fell

    the act of felling something (as a tree)

  • suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation

    the act of killing yourself

  • slaughter

    the killing of animals (as for food)

  • poisoning

    the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill

  • suffocation, asphyxiation

    killing by depriving of oxygen

  • sacrifice, ritual killing

    the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

  • electrocution

    killing by electric shock

  • decapitation, beheading

    killing by cutting off the head

  • genocide, race murder, racial extermination

    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

  • strike down

    cause to die, especially suddenly

  • electrocute

    kill by electric shock

Verb_group

  • kill

    cause the death of, without intention

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