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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | detect, extinguish |
| Main Entry: | kill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprive of existence; destroy |
| Synonyms: | X-out, annihilate, asphyxiate, assassinate, crucify, dispatch, do away with, do in, drown, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase*, execute, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, get*, guillotine, hang, hit*, immolate, liquidate, lynch, massacre, murder, neutralize, obliterate, off*, poison, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out, sacrifice, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste*, wipe out, zap |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | abolish, asphyxiate, assassinate, behead, blot out, bump off, butcher, chill*, cool*, decapitate, defeat, destroy, dispatch, do in, drub, dust off, electrocute, eliminate, eradicate, execute, exterminate, extinguish, finish, garotte, guillotine, hang, hit*, knife, knock off, liquidate, lynch, mangle, mar, massacre, misuse, off*, put away, rub out, ruin, shoot, slaughter, slay, smother, snuff, spoil, strangle, take a life, take for a ride, take out*, thrash*, waste* |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
| Antonyms: | guard, preserve, protect, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | odor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scent |
| Synonyms: | air, aroma, bouquet, effluvium, efflux, emanation, essence, exhalation, flavor, fragrance, musk, perfume, pungence, pungency, redolence, smell, snuff, stench, stink, tang, tincture, trail, whiff |
| Main Entry: | slay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, assassinate, butcher, cut off, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do in, do*, down*, eliminate, erase, execute, exterminate, finish, hit, knock off, liquidate, massacre, murder, neutralize, put away, rub out, slaughter, snuff, waste* |
| Antonyms: | bear, create, give birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | smell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perceive with the nose |
| Synonyms: | breathe, detect, discover, find, get a whiff, identify, inhale, nose, scent, sniff, snuff |
| Main Entry: | smother |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extinguish; cover, hide |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, choke, collect, compose, conceal, control, cool, cork, douse, envelop, heap, hush up, inundate, keep back, kill, muffle, overwhelm, quash, quell, quench, rein, repress, restrain, shower, shroud, simmer down, snuff, squelch, stamp out, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, surround, throttle |
| Antonyms: | light, start, uncover |
| Main Entry: | sniff |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breathe in |
| Synonyms: | detect, inhale, inspire, nose, scent, smell, snift, snuff, snuffle |
| Antonyms: | hold nose |
| Main Entry: | whiff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | smell of an odor |
| Synonyms: | aroma, blast, breath, dash, draught, flatus, fume, gust, hint, inhalation, odor, puff, scent, shade, smack, sniff, snuff, soupçon, trace, trifle, waft |
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