Thesaurus:kill
English
Verb
Sense: to put to death; to extinguish life.
Synonyms
- annihilate
- bag
- baptize
- bereave of life
- blight
- bring down
- bump off
- bury
- cack (US slang)
- compromised to a permanent end
- croak
- crush
- dash [⇒ thesaurus]
- deactivate
- dead [⇒ thesaurus]
- demolish
- destroy [⇒ thesaurus]
- dispatch
- dispose of
- do (slang)
- do in
- dust
- eliminate
- end [⇒ thesaurus]
- eradicate
- ex
- exterminate
- finish [⇒ thesaurus]
- finish off
- flatten
- grease
- knock off
- lay waste to
- make away with
- mortify (obsolete)
- neutralize
- obliterate
- off
- pay off
- pick off
- polish off
- pop off
- punch someone's ticket
- put an end to
- put down
- put someone out of their misery
- put six feet under
- put to sleep
- ravage
- rub out
- ruin
- scotch
- scupper
- scuttle
- send to eternity
- send to hell
- send to the grave
- send to the great beyond
- send to the next life
- slay
- slaughter
- smash
- smite
- snuff
- squash
- stiff [⇒ thesaurus]
- stop someone's clock
- take [⇒ thesaurus]
- terminate
- terminate with extreme prejudice
- top off (UK, slang)
- top (UK, slang)
- torpedo
- take care of
- take down
- take out
- waste
- wax
- wet [⇒ thesaurus]
- whack
- wipe out
- wreck
Hyponyms
- assassinate
- bump off
- burke
- do away with
- duppy (UK, slang)
- hit [⇒ thesaurus]
- ice (slang)
- knock off
- liquidate (informal)
- murder
- settle
- whack
- —
- execute [⇒ thesaurus]
- put to death
- —
- drown
- dunk
- send to a watery grave
- —
- dangle
- hang
- lynch
- swing
- scrag
- string up
- send to the gallows
- throw a necktie party
- trine (thieves' cant)
- —
- choke
- garrote
- garrotte
- strangle
- throttle
- —
- asphyxiate
- burke
- smother
- stifle
- suffocate
- —
- crucify
- —
- blast
- blow a hole in
- blow away
- blow apart
- blow to kingdom come
- blow up
- cap
- fusillade
- gun down
- light up
- mow down
- plug [⇒ thesaurus]
- put a bullet in
- pump full of lead
- put before a firing squad
- shoot
- shoot down
- smoke
- zip
- —
- burn [⇒ thesaurus]
- fire
- flame
- immolate
- scorch
- —
- defenestrate
- —
- disembowel
- dismember
- draw and quarter
- eviscerate
- jugulate
- gut
- rip up
- tear up
- tear apart
- tear limb from limb
- vivisect
- —
- behead
- decapitate
- guillotine
- lop head off
- put on the block
- —
- bayonet
- impale [⇒ thesaurus]
- knife
- put to the sword
- run through
- saber
- stab [⇒ thesaurus]
- —
- electrocute
- fry
- send to the chair
- —
- lapidate
- stone
- —
- suicide [⇒ thesaurus]
- suicided
- —
- burke
- butcher
- cut down
- euthanize
- massacre
- pull the plug on
- send to an early grave
- send to the iron maiden
Antonyms
See also
Further reading
- “361. killing” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “kill” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.