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Synset

cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
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sample sentences

"This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"
"The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
killable kill killing kill killing killer killer
also see
kill off
semantic pointers
hyponym
eliminate, eradicate, annihilate, wipe out, extinguish, decimate, carry off decimate drown slaughter, massacre, mow down erase, wipe out slaughter, butcher poison stone, lapidate poison commit suicide dispatch zap, vaporize sacrifice take off tomahawk destroy, put down saber, sabre overlie, overlay brain put away, put to sleep knock off, liquidate, do in, neutralize, neutralise, waste exterminate, kill off suffocate, smother, asphyxiate strangle, throttle, strangulate behead, decapitate, decollate impale, stake dismember martyr shed blood murder, bump off, slay, hit, dispatch, off, polish off, remove assassinate execute, put to death draw, quarter, draw and quarter lynch shoot, pip electrocute, fry
cause
die, perish, pass away, go, expire, drop dead, croak, decease, exit, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, pop off, choke, snuff it
verb group
kill