Killing
['kɪlɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of terminating a life.
(noun.) an event that causes someone to die.
(noun.) a very large profit.
(adj.) very funny; 'a killing joke'; 'sidesplitting antics' .
Edited by Hattie--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kill
(a.) Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow and failure in affairs. If you kill one in defense, or kill a ferocious beast, it denotes victory and a rise in position.
Typist: Nigel
Examples
- I hope I am not for the killing, Anselmo was thinking. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Sir Leicester pauses, stares, repeats in a killing voice, The young man of the name of Guppy? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I think that after the war there will have to be some great penance done for the killing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I am against all killing of men. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I think that killing a man with an automatic weapon makes it easier. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Oh, if you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- At last, oh killing news! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The retreating hordes being between friends and pursuers caused the enemy to fire high to avoid killing their own men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I won't beat you if you have got a pair of killing boots. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To which there seemed no more effectual reply than to go on killing royalists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nobody can tell me that such things as the killing of Don Guillermo in that fashion will not bring bad luck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- After the slaying in the _Ayuntamiento_ there was no more killing but we could not have a meeting that night because there were too many drunkards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Killing rats was I? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All that I am sorry for is the killing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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