Synonyms and Antonyms for kill
1. kill (v.)
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- exterminate
- brain
- go
- strangle
- kill off
- suffocate
- electrocute
- hit
- massacre
- decollate
- lynch
- decapitate
- drop dead
- execute
- cash in one's chips
- die
- snuff it
- remove
- pop off
- quarter
- neutralise
- decease
- wipe out
- erase
- pass
- lapidate
- carry off
- overlay
- poison
- exit
- eliminate
- polish off
- perish
- slaughter
- expire
- vaporize
- stone
- knock off
- tomahawk
- choke
- mow down
- put away
- behead
- eradicate
- give-up the ghost
- smother
- dispatch
- bump off
- zap
- sabre
- buy the farm
- fry
- waste
- asphyxiate
- murder
- saber
- put down
- pass away
- drown
- neutralize
- conk
- put to sleep
- shoot
- throttle
- annihilate
- do in
- overlie
- impale
- extinguish
- take off
- slay
- kick the bucket
- draw and quarter
- pip
- dismember
- martyr
- stake
- decimate
- butcher
- destroy
- assassinate
- draw
- liquidate
- sacrifice
- commit suicide
- shed blood
- off
- put to death
- strangulate
- croak
2. kill (n.)
the act of terminating a life
- racial extermination
- decapitation
- dispatch
- ending
- self-annihilation
- euthanasia
- despatch
- homicide
- self-destruction
- death
- beheading
- conclusion
- suffocation
- electrocution
- sacrifice
- asphyxiation
- slaughter
- deathblow
- fell
- termination
- coup de grace
- killing
- putting to death
- suicide
- race murder
- genocide
- poisoning
- mercy killing
- ritual killing
5. kill (n.)
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
6. kill (v.)
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
8. kill (v.)
cause to cease operating
10. kill (v.)
tire out completely
