From en.wiktionary.org:
[Kill]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [kĭl] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], of obscure origin. Cognate with [sco], [sco].
- Perhaps from unattested [en] , from [en] , from [en] , from [en] .
- Or, possibly a variant of [en] (see [en] ).
- Or, from [en] , related to [no] , [dum] , [is] ; see also [en] , [en] ).
Compare also [stq], [dum], [gml], [gml] (whence [nds-de], [nds-de]), [gmh].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To put to death ; to extinguish the life of.
2. * [act=IV]
3. * [III]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2016 | author=Justin O. Schmidt | title=The Sting of the Wild | publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | isbn=978-1-4214-1928-2 | page=102
|passage=Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having
an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other
ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and KILLS or
disables them.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | title='To reduce their environmental impact, why not simply regulate the weight of cars?', Le Monde | date=2024-09-16 | passage=After all, improving road safety has become a widely endorsed cause because nobody wants to KILL , or be KILLED , in a road accident. | author=Stéphane Foucart
}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] To render inoperative .
3. * [1=en]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1978 | author=w:John Farris | title= 吴语: The Fury (1978 film)
|passage=_Peter_: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.<br>_Policeman_: What
did you do to his arm, Peter?<br>_Peter_: I KILLED it, with a machine gun.}}
1. [en] To stop , cease [,] or render void ; to terminate .
2. * [en]
3. [en] [en] To amaze , exceed , stun [,] or otherwise incapacitate .
4. * [page=23]
5. [en] To cause great pain , discomfort [,] or distress to; to hurt .
6. * [en]
7. [en] To produce feeling s of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
8. * [en]
9. [en] To use up or to waste .
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2001 | author=Jonathan Franzen | title=The Corrections
|passage=Except for the shirt, which he’d worn, and the check, which he’d
cashed, and the bottle of port, which he’d KILLED in bed on Christmas night,
the gifts from his family were still on the floor of his bedroom.}}
1. [en] To overpower , overwhelm [,] or defeat .
2. [en] To force a company out of business .
3. [en] To punish severely .
4. * [passage="Father will KILL us for this."]
5. [en] 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.
6. * [en]
7. [en] To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play , resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
8. * [en]
9. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. [en] To cause to assume the value zero.
13. [en] To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network .
14. [en] To deadmelt .
15. [en] To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
16. * [1=en]
17. [en] To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
***** Conjugation
[old=1]
***** Synonyms
- [to put to death] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [to use up or waste] [en] , [en]
- [to render inoperative] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [to exert an overwhelming effect on] [en] [informal]
- [to exert oneself to an excessive degree] [en] [vulgar]
- See also Thesaurus:kill
***** Hyponyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[to put to death]{{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af] , [af]
- Ahom: [aho]
- Aklanon: [akl]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] (gheg)
- Amis: [ami]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Avar: [av]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Baluchi: [bal]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl]
- Borôro: [bor]
- Bouyei: [pcc]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my]
- Buryat: [bua]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chechen: [ce] , [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chickasaw: [cic]
- Chinese:
- Chukchi: [ckt]
- Coptic: [cop]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh] , [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Drung: [duu]
- Dutch: [nl] [neutral] , [nl] [morally abject, usually of people]
- Egyptian: [smꜣ] , [ẖdb]
- Elfdalian: [ovd] , [ovd]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Even: [eve]
- Evenki: [evn]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] [animal]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [literally, dated, humorous] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] [euphemism] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [politically correct] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr] [colloquial] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Gallurese: [sdn]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got] , [got]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Higaonon: [mba] , [mba]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hlai: [lic]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [of an inanimate actor like a disaster] [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [to be killed] [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Isoko: [iso]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Japhug: [sit-jap]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kabyle: [kab]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kambera: [xbr]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khakas: [kjh] , [kjh]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Komi-Zyrian: [kpv]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Laboya: [lmy]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg] , [ltg]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] _(especially if indirect)_
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo] , [lmo]
- Low German:
- Lü: [khb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Mansaka: [msk] , [msk]
- Maore Comorian: [swb]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Maranao: [mrw]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Minangkabau: [min]
- Mizo: [lus]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Nanai: [gld]
- Neapolitan: [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf] , [nrf]
- Northern Ohlone: [cst]
- Northern Sami: [se] , [se] , [se]
- Northern Thai: [nod]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old English: [ang]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Pali: [pi]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt] , [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] [(to give coup de grace)]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- S'gaw Karen: [ksw]
- Samoan: [sm]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc] , [sc] , [sc]
- Sassarese: [sdc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn]
- Sherpa: [xsr]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: [st]
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] [colloquial] , [es]
- Sranan Tongo: [srn]
- Sumerian: [sux] , [sux]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Sylheti: [syl] , [syl]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Tai Dam: [blt]
- Tai Nüa: [tdd]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Tangut: [txg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ugaritic: [uga]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- White Hmong: [mww]
- Yakut: [sah]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] , [yi] , [yi] [colloquial]
- Yurok: [yur]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zealandic: [zea]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[to render inoperative]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to render void]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] [plans] , [de] [newspaper article]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Lao: [lo]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Thai: [th]
[trans-bottom]
[to waste]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] [time] , [de] [informal: alcohol]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Irish: [ga] [time]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk] , [sk] , [sk]
}} [trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] < !-- was " membunuh " - assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [id] < !-- was " menghabisi " - assumed inflected form or vocalised spelling; please verify if linking is acceptable. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. The act of killing .
2. Specifically, the death blow .
3. The result of killing ; that which has been killed.
4. * [passage=If ye plunder his KILL from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.]
1. [en] [en] An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
5. [en] The ground ing of the ball on the opponent's court , winning the rally .
6. * 2011 , the _34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame_ , in 吴语: Catawba College 's _Campus Magazine_ , Spring/Summer 2011, page 21:
7. *: As a senior in 1993, Turner had a KILL percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 KILLS , ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
***** Hyponyms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[act of killing]{{multitrans|data=
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aramaic:
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [poetic] [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Malay: [ms]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Old English: [ang]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- West Frisian: [fy] , [fy] , [fy]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[death blow]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[result of killing]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] [fresh body of a killed animal] , [da] [victim]
- Dutch: [nl] , [animal] [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [game animal] [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [booty] , [ru] [victim] , [ru] [fresh body of a killed animal] , [ru] [smaller]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- West Frisian: [fy] , [fy]
- Zazaki: [zza]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
[Kill (body of water)] Borrowing from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en],
from [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A creek ; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
***** Translations
[body of water] [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2015 | author=Kirilka Stavreva | title=Words Like Daggers | page=77
|passage=Admonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more
silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a KILL, she
must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”}}
*** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=terms derived from the noun or verb|all-kill |autokill |bottom
kill |buzzkill |care killed a cat |care killed the cat |catch and kill |crack
kills |crowd-kill |curiosity killed the cat |double kill |dressed to kill
|dress to kill |drill and kill |eat what you kill |fill or kill |fishkill
|fish kill |fit to kill |giant-killing |go for the kill |hard kill
|hit-to-kill |homekill |if looks could kill |I kill you later |in for the kill
|kill0r |killability |killable |Killadelphia |Killary |kill bit |killbit
|killboard |killbot |kill box |killbox |kill-buck |killbuck |kill-calf
|killcalf |kill chain |kill cord |kill-courtesy |killcow |kill-cow |killcrop
|kill-death ratio |kill-deer |kill-devil |kill devil |Kill Devil Hills |killed
in action |killee |killer |kill fee |killfie |kill file |killfilter |kill for
|kill house |killing |killing field |killing floor |killing spree |killing
time |kill it |kill it with fire |kill-joy |killjoy |kill kit |kill me
|kill-me-quick |kill off |kill-off |killographic |killology |kill one's
darlings |kill oneself |kill-priest |killsat |kill sat |kill screen |kill
shelter |killshot |kill shot |kill someone dead |killsprite |kill steal |kill
stealer |killstreak |kill switch |kill team |kill-the-beggar |kill the fatted
calf |kill the goose that lays the golden eggs |kill the messenger |kill the
rabbit |kill-time |kill time |kill-to-death ratio |kill trees |kill two birds
with one shot |kill two birds with one stone |kill with kindness |kill-worthy
|killworthy |kill your heroes |kill your idols |kill zone |kilt |lambkill
|marry fuck kill |mercy killing |mercy-killing |no-kill shelter |non-killing
|one turn kill |outkill |overkill |penalty kill |permakill |photo kill |rekill
|roadkill |seckill |self-kill |self-killed |self-killing |serial kill |soft
kill |spawnkill |spawn-kill |spawn kill |stack-upon-the-kill
|stack-upo'-the-kill |static kill |surplus killing |teamkill |that which
doesn't kill you makes you stronger |time to kill |top kill |twin killing
|underkill |unkill |vokills |what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
|window-kill |winterkill |winter-kill |winter kill |winter-killed |would it
kill someone |you're killing me, Smalls }}
[en]
** Cahuilla
*** Adverb
[chl]
1. Not
** Dutch
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] guy , dude
2. * {{ quote-web | nl
|title=Alles is ontworpen, maar niet alles is designer |trans-title=Everything
is designed, but not everything is 'designer' |author=Prof. Soortkill
|url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/02/15/alles-is-ontworpen-maar-niet-alles-is-designer-2-a4157144
|work=w:NRC Handelsblad |date=15 February 2023 |accessdate=11 August 2023
|text=Die KILL draagt geeneens designer dan wil hij me komen chanten, wats met
hem!? |translation=That GUY doesn't even wear designer clothes, still he wants
to flirt with me, what's wrong with him?}}
** German
*** Pronunciation
- [de]
- [de]
- [de]
*** Verb
[de]
1. [de]
2. [de] [de]
** Livonian
*** Verb
[liv]
1. [liv]
*** References
- [R:liv:LDW]
** Luxembourgish
*** Pronunciation
- [lb]
- [lb]
*** Etymology 1
From [lb], from [lb], from [lb], from [lb].
Cognate with [de], [en], [nl], [nds].
**** Adjective
[lb-adj]
1. cool
***** Declension
[lb-decl-adj]
***** Related terms
- [lb]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[lb]
1. [lb]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[kil]
*** Noun
[f]
1. [es] a [en] ; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
**** Usage notes
[es-unadapted]
** Ter Sami
*** Etymology
From [sjt].
*** Noun
[sjt]
1. language
**** Derived terms
- [sjt]
**** Further reading
- [69758]