Usually means: Cause death to a living being.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. kill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kill, kill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kill, kill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kill, kill: Wordnik
  7. kill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Kill, kill: Wiktionary
  9. kill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. kill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. kill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. kill: Dictionary.com
  13. kill (n.), kill (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. kill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. KILL, Kill (Cannibal Corpse album), Kill (Electric Six album), Kill (Unix), Kill (body of water), Kill (command), Kill (creek), Kill, Kill, The Kill (Bury Me), The Kill (disambiguation), The Kill (novel), The Kill (song), The Kill, The kill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Kill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. kill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. kill: Rhymezone
  19. kill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. kill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Kill: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. kill: Free Dictionary
  23. kill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. kill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. kill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Kill: Investopedia
  4. kill: Legal dictionary
  5. Kill: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. kill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. KILL: Acronym Finder
  3. kill: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. kill, kill, kill, kill, kill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Kill: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. K.I.L.L, the kill: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Kill: Dan's Poker
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  4. Kill: Sports Definitions
  5. Badminton Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
verb:  (transitive) To render inoperative.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
verb:  (transitive) To use up or to waste.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
verb:  (transitive) To force a company out of business.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.
verb:  (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
verb:  To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
verb:  (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
verb:  (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
verb:  (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
verb:  (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
verb:  (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
noun:  The act of killing.
noun:  Specifically, the death blow.
noun:  The result of killing; that which has been killed.
noun:  (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
noun:  (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
noun:  (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (rare) Alternative form of kiln [An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.]

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