killing的意思|killing的解释-里氏词典

killing ['kɪlɪŋ]

n. 谋杀, 杀戮

a. 杀害的, 疲惫的, 迷人的

[经] 赚大钱

killing

[ noun ]

an event that causes someone to die

<noun.event>

the act of terminating a life

<noun.act>

a very large profit

<noun.possession>

[ adj ]

very funny

<adj.all>

a killing joke

sidesplitting antics

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.

Killing \Kill"ing\, a.
Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a
colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. --
{Kill"ing*ly}, adv.

Those eyes are made so killing. --Pope.

Nothing could be more killingly spoken. --Milton.

killing \kill"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of causing a living organism to die.
[PJC]

2. An unusually large gain in a financial or business
transaction or enterprise; as, she made a killing trading
cattle futures.
[PJC]

That's why it's OK." A wounded Canadian fugitive being airlifted by a medical helicopter apparently tried to commandeer the aircraft in flight, causing it to crash and killing him and the three-member crew, authorities said Monday.
The pesticide, in wide agricultural use in the 1950s and 1960s, built up in the food chain killing many wild birds. Environmentalists hailed the recovery as a triumph for the 1973 Endangered Species Act, now before Congress for re-authorisation.
There have been several cases in recent years of Sikh extremists killing the entire families of Hindus or Sikhs suspected of being police informers.
The two bills were introduced in January after a deranged drifter, Patrick Purdy, opened fire at a crowded Stockton schoolyard, killing five young students and wounding 29 others, as well as a teacher.
His lawyers produced letters Cook wrote to McLaughlin from prison, in which she admitted killing the neighbor.
Police initially treated Mrs. Masegian as a suspect after uncovering a mysterious telephone message she received at the hotel the day before the killing.
The three are charged with illegally entering Liberia in July with the intent of staging a coup and killing Doe.
The disclosure came amid Anglo-Irish tensions following the killing of a Catholic man on Sunday by a British soldier and the Irish government's decision to conduct its own investigation of the slaying, which occurred in Northern Ireland.
The state accused the three men of setting off a car bomb with a remote control device outside a house owned by the African National Congress in Bulawayo on Jan. 12, killing an unemployed Zambian who helped with the attack.
He then opened fire, killing three farmers, Patangan said.
Investigators have said a bomb in a radio-cassette player brought the Boeing 747 down Dec. 21, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 residents of the market town of Lockerbie, Scotland.
Scott Allen Hain, 19, convicted of killing two Tulsa restaurant employees, who were locked in the trunk of a car that was then set on fire.
Syrian gunners lobbed shells at two Christian harbors Thursday, killing at least two people hours after Arab League envoys called a new cease-fire to halt two months of fierce artillery battles.
An explosion destroyed a French UTA jetliner over the Niger desert last September, killing 171 people.
Burmese troops fired on hundreds of looters in three separate incidents, killing 18 people, Rangoon Radio said.
Iceland immediately exploited a whaling commission loophole by beginning a program of "scientific whaling," arguing that it couldn't assess the status of its whale populations without killing and examining a number of whales.
He also succeeded in having charges dropped against a man in connection with the killing of two soldiers at an IRA funeral last year.
Rogers commanded the missile cruiser that mistakenly shot down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf last July, killing all 290 people aboard.
The state has no provision for mercy killing, he said, adding, "Murder is murder." Beverly Maggart worked as a secretary at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from the mid-1970s until she became physically unable to work last September.
It has stood empty since a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook northern California six months ago, killing 68 people, cracking concrete columns supporting the waterfront roadway.
A teen-ager who killed her abusive father was acquitted Friday in a judgment that extends to juveniles the post-traumatic stress defense previously used in cases of battered wives killing husbands.
Hamadi, 24, admitted to taking part in the hijacking of Flight 847 from Athens to Rome but denied killing Stethem.
The outlawed Irish Republican Army on Saturday claimed responsibility for killing a British soldier in this North Sea port and urged civilians and families not to travel with British troops.
Sandra Schultz's worst nightmare came true last week when the man convicted of killing her 19-year-old son and his fiance walked out of jail.
Wood, who worked at the home from July 1985 to October 1988, is charged with killing Cook and Chambers.
A bomb ripped apart a three-story hotel in the center of the old city, killing 13 people and wounding four others, police said.
Buddhist monks in Mandalay and other Burmese cities began a boycott of the army after soldiers put down a pro-democracy demonstration there on Aug. 8, reportedly killing four people, including two monks.
State police said they found a map and a spiral-bound notebook in which Clopton described killing at least two people, dismembering them and scattering their parts in rural areas of LaRue, Hardin and Nelson counties.
Anti-government guerrillas fired rockets at an Afghan city, hitting a hospital and killing dozens of people, Tass reported Thursday.
James Earl Ray, serving a 99-year prison sentence for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has filed for divorce from his wife of 12 years.

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