Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Murder; homicide.
- n. A kill; a quarry.
- n. A sudden large profit: made a killing on the stock market.
- adj. Intended or apt to kill; fatal.
- adj. Thoroughly exhausting: a killing pace.
- adj. Informal Hilarious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of slaying or depriving of life.
- Depriving of life; deadly; doing execution.
- Overpowering; irresistible: generally in the sense of fascinating, bewitching, charming, so as to attract and compel admiration: as, killing coquetries.
- So terrible or frightful as almost to kill one; exceedingly severe; exhausting; wearing.
- n. In the manufacture of steel, the practice of stopping or preventing the evolution of gas in the steel. Steel is most commonly killed with silicon or aluminium.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of kill.
- adj. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
- adj. Devastatingly attractive.
- adj. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
- n. an instance of someone being killed
- n. informal A large amount of money.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
- n. The act or process of causing a living organism to die.
- n. An unusually large gain in a financial or business transaction or enterprise.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of terminating a life
- adj. very funny
- n. a very large profit
- n. an event that causes someone to die
Etymologies
- From kill + -ing. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Then," pursued Marcelline, "you are willing to stand by and see her slowly murdered, inch by inch, by this white-faced devil, who leans over her and professes to love her, but is killing her -- _killing her_, Dieu des dieux!”
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
“I was horrified to hear the term killing field in relation to the toll AIDS is taking in countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia when it comes to this pandemic.”
Message to Jenna Bush: The Congolese children have no hope as they are raped
“A hate filled zionist who believes in killing is calling a hindu who believes in nonviolence and has jewish relatives an ‘aryan nation’ person.”
Think Progress » Protest Turnout: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Lies
“For me as a pubic land deer hunter, the killing is a REALLY small part .. lol”
“If you only hunt for huge HORNS, best you stay at home, as the killing is the last straw and the hunt is over.”
“No doubt Coppola and his screenwriter, John Milius, were fully aware of the plot of Die Walküre, the ingenious portrayal of the helicopter gunships as modernized, mechanized Valkyries — the music both romanticizes combat and wryly points out the absurdity of ancient notions of chivalry in a war where the killing is almost industrialized.”
“Humph!" said Dan, as he speared up an apple out of the basket on the point of his knife, "ain't that something like what you call killing two ----”
“In a statement, the Saudi monarch, King Abdullah, called on the Syrian president to stop what he called the "killing machine and end the bloodshed.”
“The candidate has said repeatedly that Melton used the word "killing" to describe what happens to two-week old embryos in order to proceed with the research.”
“That's what we call killing two birds with one stone where I come from.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘killing’.
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Sweet tooth fairy dominoes
As originally suggested on sweet tooth fairy domino:
Each person adds one word trying to create a single, potentially infinite sweet tooth fairy (please look it up if you are not familiar wit...banana, boat, house, arrest, warrant, peace, sign, post, box, clever, Hans, device and 119 more...
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No Dearth of Deadly Designations
catafalque, cenotaph, necropolis, sepulcher, sarcophagus, mausoleum, reliquary, ossuary, necrosis, cadaver, cadaverous, pyre and 103 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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MIX DES CULTURES
french words & english ones
des mots français & d'autres anglaisà gogo, tchétchène, faciès, déviant, gamin, superette, grigri, diantre, in jeopardy, syncope, primrose, menthe and 92 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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