to kill
- verb
- /kɪl/
- Jargon
- We need to kill the outdated sections of the report before publishing it.
OK, we can we can kill the video, great.
- OK, we can we can kill the video, great.
- There's a there's a fee for if they kill your story, right?
- And then they just shut it down and us and killed our channel.
Examples
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I unlocked the car doors with the remote, reached in, and killed the interior lights.
Fiction book (2002) -
Then, in March 1996, they covered the trees with dormant insecticidal oil to kill any insect eggs.
Academic text (1997) -
OK, we can we can kill the video, great.
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All right, just kill the sound.
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And kill this light here, guys.
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And you better kill that video feed.
Fiction book (2002) -
The succession of ways in which you can kill new legislation is spectacular.
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Kill the lights.
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"If you just sit there hitting delete, delete, delete to kill spam, it's pretty easy to delete something you need," says Polley.
Academic text (2003) -
We still have half a dozen fax numbers I'd love to kill, but they're on multipurpose printers.
Blog text (12)
Synonyms
Remove or kill something completely so it is gone
To remove information like text or files so it cannot be seen
Destroy something so nothing is left
Remove marks, writing, or digital files so they are no longer visible
To destroy something completely so nothing remains
To mark text so it will be removed
To remove something from a computer, especially files or text
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To end a pleasant situation suddenly by saying or doing something awkward that makes people feel bad
To destroy a steady source of income by greedy short-term choices
- Literature
To remove parts of your writing that you love to make it clearer
Phrasal Verbs
- Slang
To try to get the last hit on an enemy after another player did most fighting
Compounds
- Jargon
Taking the final hit on an enemy in a game so another player does not get the kill
- NSFW
A plan that makes people or machines stop working without causing death and without causing damage
How Final
Surface Forms
Etymology
To 'kill' a scene or paragraph in editing comes from the same idea of putting something to an end, like putting it 'to death', so editors 'kill' parts to make them go away or stop being used.