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Definitions for: Killing
[n] the act of terminating a life
[n] an event that causes someone to die
[n] (informal) a very large profit
[adj] (informal) very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
[adj] having a debilitating effect; "a killing job in the hot sun"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: cleanup, debilitating, draining, exhausting, humorous, humourous, kill, putting to death, sidesplitting, violent death
See Also: asphyxiation, beheading, conclusion, coup de grace, death, deathblow, decapitation, despatch, dispatch, earnings, electrocution, ending, euthanasia, execution, fatality, fell, genocide, homicide, human death, lucre, lynching, manslaughter, mercy killing, murder, net, net income, net profit, poisoning, profit, profits, race murder, racial extermination, regicide, ritual killing, sacrifice, self-annihilation, self-destruction, shooting, slaughter, slaying, suffocation, suicide, termination
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