All kill synonyms

verb kill

• wipe out — an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
• murder — Law. the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law. In the U.S., special statutory definitions include murder committed with malice aforethought, characterized by deliberation or premeditation or occurring during the commission of another serious crime, as robbery or arson (first-degree murder) and murder by intent but without deliberation or premeditation (second-degree murder)
• hit — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• slay — to draw (warp ends) through the heddle eyes of the harness or through the dents of the reed in accordance with a given plan for weaving a fabric.
• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• drown — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
• poison — a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• quell — to suppress; put an end to; extinguish: The troops quelled the rebellion quickly.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• recant — to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), especially formally; retract.
• scotch — scutch (defs 2, 4).
• crucify — If someone is crucified, they are killed by being tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
• dump — to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly: Dump the topsoil here.
• neutralize — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• asphyxiate — If someone is asphyxiated, they die or lose consciousness because they are unable to breathe properly.
• dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
• guillotine — a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.
• strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
• zap — to kill or shoot.
• snuff — to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).
• suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• finish — to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
• liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
• sacrifice — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• smother — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
• lynch — to put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.
• off — so as to be no longer supported or attached: This button is about to come off.
• annihilate — To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.
• obliterate — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
• immolate — to sacrifice.
• garrote — a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
• prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
• revoke — to take back or withdraw; annul, cancel, or reverse; rescind or repeal: to revoke a decree.
• forbid — to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place: to forbid him entry to the house.
• cease — If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• still — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
• quash — to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue: to quash a rebellion.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• suppress — to put an end to the activities of (a person, body of persons, etc.): to suppress the Communist and certain left-leaning parties.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.