Synonyms of the word

kill

• v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
• v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
• v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
• v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
• v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
• v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
• v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
• v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
• n. The act of killing.
• n. Specifically, the death blow.
• n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
• n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
• n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
• n. A kiln.

ache

• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
• v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
• n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
• n. (obsolete) Parsley.
• n. Rare spelling of aitch.

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

blackball

• n. A rejection, a vote against admitting someone.
• n. A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
• n. The act of so rejecting someone.
• n. A kind of large black sweet; a niggerball.
• n. A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
• v. (transitive) To vote against, especially in an exclusive organization.
• v. (transitive) To ostracize.

conclusion

• n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
• n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
• n. A decision reached after careful thought.
• n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
• n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
• n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
• n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

destroy

• v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
• v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
• v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
• v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
• v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
• v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
• v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

destruct

• v. (transitive) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
• v. (intransitive) To self-destruct.

destruction

• n. The act of destroying.
• n. The results of a destructive event.

devastation

• n. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
• n. (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.

down

• n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• n. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered…
• n. (slang, rare, countable) A penis.
• adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
• adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
• adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• adv. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
• adv. From less to greater detail.
• adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
• adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather…
• prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• prep. From one end to another of.
• adj. Depressed, feeling low.
• adj. At a lower level than before.
• adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to.
• adj. (not comparable, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
• adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled…
• adj. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
• adj. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down,…
• adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.).
• adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• v. (transitive) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid…
• v. (transitive) To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
• v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
• v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while…
• v. (transitive) To write off; to make fun of.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
• n. A negative aspect; a downer.
• n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
• n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• n. Down payment.
• n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as…
• n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• v. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

drink

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
• v. (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
• v. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
• v. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
• n. A beverage.
• n. A (served) alcoholic beverage.
• n. The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
• n. A type of beverage (usually mixed).
• n. Alcoholic beverages in general.
• n. (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
• n. (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink.

end

• n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
• n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
• n. Death, especially miserable.
• n. Result.
• n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
• n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
• n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
• n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
• n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
• n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
• n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
• v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.

ending

• v. present participle of end.
• n. A termination or conclusion.
• n. The last part of something.
• n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

exhaust

• v. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
• v. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end.
• v. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
• v. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely.
• v. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances…
• n. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see…
• n. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
• n. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
• n. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
• n. exhaust gas.
• adj. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

imbibe

• v. To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
• v. (figuratively) To take in; absorb.

killing

• v. present participle of kill.
• adj. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
• adj. Devastatingly attractive.
• adj. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
• n. An instance of someone being killed.
• n. (informal) A large amount of money.

negative

• adj. not positive or neutral.
• adj. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles.
• adj. (mathematics) of number, less than zero.
• adj. (linguistics, logic) denying a proposition.
• adj. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
• adj. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.).
• adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right…
• adj. (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
• adj. (New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant,…
• adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
• n. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition.
• n. (law) a right of veto.
• n. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
• n. (grammar) a word that indicates negation.
• n. (mathematics) a negative quantity.
• n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is…
• n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• v. To veto; to refuse.
• v. To contradict.
• v. To disprove.
• v. To make ineffective, neutralize.
• interj. (signalling, law) An elaborate synonym for the word No.

obliterate

• v. To remove completely, leaving no trace; to wipe out; to destroy.

overcome

• v. (transitive) To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To win (a battle).
• v. (intransitive) To win or prevail in some sort of battle, contest, etc.
• v. (transitive, usually in passive) To overwhelm with emotion.
• v. To come or pass over; to spread over.
• v. To overflow; to surcharge.

overpower

• v. (transitive) To subdue someone by superior force.
• v. (transitive) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
• v. (transitive) To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.

overtake

• v. To pass a more slowly moving object.
• v. (economics) To become greater than something else.
• v. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away.

overwhelm

• v. To engulf, surge over and submerge.
• v. To overpower, crush.
• v. To overpower emotionally.
• v. To cause to surround, to cover.
• n. The state or condition of being overwhelmed.

pop

• n. (countable) A loud, sharp sound as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
• n. (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, dated British) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently…
• n. (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink,…
• n. Shortened from pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. Possibly confusion, by assonance,…
• n. (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A portion, a quantity dispensed.
• n. Something that stands out or is distinctive, especially to the senses.
• n. (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
• n. A bird, the European redwing.
• n. (physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration,…
• v. (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
• v. (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
• v. (intransitive, with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move…
• v. (transitive, Britain) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
• v. (intransitive, Britain, Canada, often with over, round, along, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
• v. (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
• v. (transitive) To hit (something or someone).
• v. (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
• v. (intransitive, vulgar) To ejaculate.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove a data item from the top of (a stack).
• v. (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a tablet of a drug).
• v. (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
• v. (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
• interj. Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
• n. (colloquial) Affectionate form of father.
• adj. (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.
• n. Pop music.
• n. (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

terminate

• v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
• adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
• adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
• adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.

termination

• n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
• n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
• n. An end in time; a conclusion.
• n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
• n. An outcome or result.
• n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
• n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
• n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

tucker

• v. To tire out or exhaust a person or animal.
• n. (countable) One who or that which tucks.
• n. (uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Food.
• n. (countable) Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
• n. (obsolete) A fuller; one who fulls cloth.

veto

• n. A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
• n. An invocation of that right.
• n. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
• v. (transitive) To use a veto against.

whelm

• v. To cover; to submerge; to engulf; to bury.
• v. To overcome with emotion.
• v. (obsolete) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.