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kill  

EN[kɪl]
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Ftuer WKill
  • Kill signifie en anglais « tuer ». Ce mot peut référer à :
  • kill, une des commandes Unix ;
  • Kill, un album studio du groupe de brutal death metal américain Cannibal Corpse, sorti en 2006 ;
  • Kill, une ville du comté de Kildare en République d'Irlande ;
  • NomPLkills
    1. The act of killing.
      1. The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
    2. Specifically, the death blow.
      1. The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
    3. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
      1. The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
    4. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
      1. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
        1. The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
        2. Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
      2. A kiln.
      3. VerbeSGkillsPRkillingPT, PPkilled
        1. VT To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
          1. Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
          2. There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills.
        2. VT To render inoperative.
          1. He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
          2. Kirk Douglas, (actor, as Peter), The Fury (1978):
          3. Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm. Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter? Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.
        3. VT (figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
          1. The editor decided to kill the story.
          2. The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
          3. My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
        4. VT (figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
          1. That night, she was dressed to kill.
          2. That joke always kills me.
        5. VT (figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
          1. It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
          2. It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
        6. VT To use up or to waste.
          1. I'm just doing this to kill time.
          2. He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."
        7. VT (figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
          1. Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
          2. Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
        8. VT (figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
          1. The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
        9. VT To force a company out of business.
          1. VI INF To produce intense pain.
            1. You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
          2. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic) To punish severely.
            1. My parents are going to kill me!
          3. VT (sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
            1. That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.
          4. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic) INF To cause to assume the value zero.
            1. (computing, Internet, IRC) To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
            2. Plus d'exemples
              1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
                • A wave of emotion overcame her when she thought about her son who was killed in battle.
                • They have the power to make things happen, see the future, and kill off bad guys, but they rarely have the superstrength of Superman, which would make them too unfeminine.
                • I know he suffered from depression, but surely he wouldn't go so far as to kill himself?
              2. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
                • This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.

            Meaning of kill for the defined word.

            Grammaticalement, ce mot "kill" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable. C'est aussi un verbe, plus spécifiquement, un verbes intransitif et un verbes transitif.
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