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kill
verb as in deprive of existence; destroy
Strongest matches
assassinate, drown, execute, get, hit, massacre, murder, poison, slaughter, slay, wipe out
Strong matches
annihilate, asphyxiate, crucify, dispatch, dump, electrocute, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, finish, garrote, guillotine, hang, immolate, liquidate, lynch, neutralize, obliterate, off, sacrifice, smother, snuff, strangle, suffocate, waste, zap
Weak matches
do away with, do in, polish off, put away, put to death, rub out
Example Sentences
Mrs MacDonald told the court: "He would say I'm going to kill him, I’m going to bloody kill him for ruining my life".
Earlier, Mr MacDonald's wife told the court that her husband threatened to kill an osteopath he claimed had ruined his life by making a back injury worse.
NumbersUSA ran a grassroots robo-fax campaign that helped kill George W. Bush’s bipartisan immigration overhaul.
“It’s a beautiful plant,” he says, “sturdy and hard to kill.”
Because isn’t that what beauty is, in all of its prismatic totality — hard to kill, always in bloom?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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