Kill

[kɪl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; 'the pilot reported two kills during the mission'.

(verb.) destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; 'Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods'.

(verb.) cause to cease operating; 'kill the engine'.

(verb.) tire out completely; 'The daily stress of her work is killing her'.

(verb.) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; 'kill these lines in the President's speech'.

(verb.) cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; 'This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank'; 'The farmer killed a pig for the holidays'.

(verb.) cause the death of, without intention; 'She was killed in the collision of three cars'.

(verb.) deprive of life; 'AIDS has killed thousands in Africa'.

(verb.) hit with great force; 'He killed the ball'.

(verb.) hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games; 'She killed the ball'.

(verb.) overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration; 'The comedian was so funny, he was killing me!'.

(verb.) be the source of great pain for; 'These new shoes are killing me!'.

(verb.) thwart the passage of; 'kill a motion'; 'he shot down the student's proposal'.

(verb.) be fatal; 'cigarettes kill'; 'drunken driving kills'.

錄入:凯思琳--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A kiln.

(n.) A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

(v. t.) To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.

(v. t.) To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.

(v. t.) To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.

(v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.

整理:斯特拉

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Slay, slaughter, murder, despatch, ASSASSINATE, carry off, put to death, deprive of life, make away with, give one one's quietus, give a death-blow to.

塞西莉亚校對

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Slay, murder, assassinate, destroy, slaughter, butcher, immolate, massacre,deaden, put_to_death, despatch

ANT:Resuscitate, revivify, vivify, reanimate

艾布拉姆編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to put to death to slay: to nullify or neutralise to weaken or dilute to render inactive: to reject discard: to fascinate overcome.—n. the act of killing as game.—ns. Kill′-court′esy (Shak.) a discourteous boorish person; Kill′-crop a changeling; Kill′er one who kills a slaughterer or butcher: a club for killing fish: a ferocious delphinid which sometimes attacks the whale.—p.adj. Kill′ing depriving of life: destructive: deadly irresistible: completely fascinating.—n. and adj. Kill′joy a mar-sport austere.—Kill by inches by gradual means as by torture; Kill off to exterminate; Kill time to consume spare time as with amusements &c.; Kill two birds with one stone to effect one thing by the way or by the same means with which another thing is done; Kill up (Shak.) to exterminate.—Killing times the days of the persecution of the Covenanters.—Do a thing to kill in an irresistible manner.

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