Kill \Kill\, n. [D. kil.] 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.
Kill \Kill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Killed} (k[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Killing}.] [OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill, strike; perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf. {Quell}), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to kill with the ax.] 1. To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words ! --Shak.
2. To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. ``To kill thine honor.'' --Shak.
Her lively color kill'd with deadly cares. --Shak.
3. To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind; new sound insultation killed the loud noises from outside. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. --Shak.
4. To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
5. To waste or spend unprofitably; -- usually used of time; as, he killed an hour waiting for the doctor to see him. [PJC]
6. To cancel or forbid publication of (a report, article, etc.), after it has been written; as, they killed the article after getting threats of a lawsuit. [PJC]
{To kill time}, to busy one's self with something which occupies the attention, or makes the time pass without tediousness.
Syn: To murder; assassinate; slay; butcher; destroy. -- To {Kill}, {Murder}, {Assassinate}. To kill does not necessarily mean any more than to deprive of life. A man may kill another by accident or in self-defense, without the imputation of guilt. To murder is to kill with malicious forethought and intention. To assassinate is to murder suddenly and by stealth. The sheriff may kill without murdering; the duelist murders, but does not assassinate his antagonist; the assassin kills and murders.
Kill \Kill\, n. 1. The act of killing.
``There is none like to me!'' says the cub in the pride of his earliest kill. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.
If ye plunder his kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
For every four drinking drivers who kill themselves, approximately three innocent victims also die.
Like the House, the Senate committee declined to kill any programs, relying instead on across-the-board spending restraint to reach deficit-reduction targets without making those tough choices in an election year.
Robert Nance, 43, of Huntington, was convicted Aug. 1 for conspiring to kill a federal witness, attempting to kill witnesses and a jail escape charge.
Robert Nance, 43, of Huntington, was convicted Aug. 1 for conspiring to kill a federal witness, attempting to kill witnesses and a jail escape charge.
Authorities contended Savage then sent Sean Doutre, 22, a bouncer at his bar, to kill Mrs. Spearman.
The Philippine military said it had uncovered a plot by communist guerrillas to kill retired U.S. Maj. Gen.
Idomeneus loses his reason, slays his son, tries to kill himself but is prevented.
But off-kilter the least bit, it'll kill you," Swayze said in an interview in May 29's US magazine.
"Even if they kill all the hostages there on the plane, we'll never, ever release the killers who are here in Kuwait," he added, referring to the hijackers' demand for the freedom of 17 convicted terrorists.
No notification was ever considered, officials said, apparently because the U.S. didn't think the coup plotters intended to kill Mr. Noriega, but merely sought to imprison him.
"Even if he didn't do much for the progress of our country, he didn't kill anybody," said Safi, who studied at Czechoslovakia's Charles University.
The minister notified authorities, who rushed to the home south of Knoxville and found Mrs. Sweeten still on the telephone, threatening to kill herself.
The illness is marked by violent diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration that can kill a victim within five hours.
Gunmen shot and killed 19 villagers in southern Punjab yesterday, and Sikh rebels, who say the act of casting a ballot would endorse Indian rule, have vowed to kill the first five people who vote today.
Her husband's assassin, Mark David Chapman, said he had decided to kill John Lennon in 1980 after reading an article about the former Beatle in a magazine, Ono said.
"You're better off being uncomfortable for two or three months than ending up with a $3 billion turkey that you eventually have to kill," he said.
Helicopters sprayed up to 20 square miles of suburban Miami with malathion in eight aerial treatments to kill Mediterranean fruit flies, considered the most destructive farm pest because it can attack 250 fruits and vegetables.
A Chicago street gang member testified Saturday that Noah Robinson ordered a "hit" to kill a former employee, but the witness admitted he was promised money and leniency for cooperating with authorities.
But two, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Ezer Weizman, a Cabinet minister without portfolio, publicly expressed displeasure with the assassination, fearing it could kill U.S.-backed peace efforts and fuel greater Arab extremism.
There has long been speculation that the orders to kill Markov came from Bucharest.
"Growth can kill," says Gerald E. Hills, director of entrepreneurial studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In the statement, the Extraditables also said they would kill family members of officials participating in such a kidnapping operation.
Nicholas Soames, junior agriculture minister, yesterday said sheep dogs were the victims of illegal, indiscriminate poisoning by some farmers wanting to kill predators.
They can't kill us the way they killed us then." Businesses are showing confidence, too.
"We expected death at any minute," said Amador. "They said they were going to kill us." Two crew members stayed behind and were never heard from again, and he later found a third was officially reported dead.
But a small and determined group continues to kill and maim for it. Few countries would have been able to respond to this violence with the maturity shown by Spain.
Leakey said the man who was beaten identified the attackers by their speech as Somalis and heard them tell each other to shoot to kill.
"This shows you how the food shortages and the long journey, which in some cases is done on foot, can kill women, children and old people," the statement said.
Khomeini, Iran's 88-year-old revolutionary patriarch, ordered his followers Feb. 14 to kill Rushdie for blaspheming Islam and the prophet Mohammed.
"If to want to get Saddam out of Kuwait without a war, make it clear to him that you will kill him on Jan. 15," said the Saudi source.