Thesaurus
kill
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of KILL
1
to deprive of life <during the war more soldiers were killed by disease than anything else>
Related Words bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]; annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite; assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate; euthanize (also euthanatize), put down; suicide
Phrases do away with, do for [chiefly British], make away with
Antonyms animate
2
to reject by or as if by a vote <the Senate killed the bill by a single vote>
3
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it <I think that paragraph is irrelevant, so kill it>
Synonyms blue-pencil, cancel, cross (out), dele, delete, edit (out), elide, kill, scratch (out), strike (out), stroke (out)
Related Words blot out, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, root (out), rub out, wipe out; bleep, blip, clip, cut, excise, remove; bowdlerize, censor, clean (up), expurgate, launder, redact, red-pencil; abbreviate, crop, shorten; black out, repress, silence, suppress
Near Antonyms stet
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to attract or delight as if by magic <with his dark good looks he would positively kill the ladies>
Synonyms allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, enchant, fascinate, kill, magnetize, wile, witch [archaic]
6
to cause to stop functioning <kill the engine before it overheats>
Related Words flick (off); dismantle, mothball, phase out; arrest, brake, chock, cut off, draw up, halt, jam, stall, stick
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