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killing

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Word definitions for killing in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
killing \kill"ing\, n. The act or process of causing a living organism to die. An unusually large gain in a financial or business transaction or enterprise; as, she made a killing trading cattle futures.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an event that causes someone to die [syn: violent death ] the act of terminating a life [syn: kill , putting to death ] a very large profit [syn: cleanup ]

Usage examples of killing.

Weavers had been responsible for the practice of killing Aberrant children for more than a hundred years.

With the exception of Harry Keeler, who posed a direct threat to the Abiders, he had yet to see or hear of an Interloper killing a human being.

The purpose of those killings could only have been to dupe whoever was on the receiving end of those subconscious television messages into believing that this Abraxas character is some sort of Lone Ranger, spreading good wherever he goes.

The women in Group X know Malik is killing abusers, and also that he killed an innocent man.

How it could be so close to certain of not killing acidophilus and other helpful bacteria in our digestive systems?

Plague can be grown easily in a wide range of temperatures and media, and we eventually developed a plague weapon capable of surviving in an aerosol while maintaining its killing capacity.

Amen and in his affidavit, Ohlendorf described how a typical killing took place.

And it sets me thinking of those who have never had an ailment, up to a certain age, when the killing blow comes.

Track Almanac had come through for a killing, and he had subscribed, though the ten bucks a week was a sixth of his salary.

His cutting out the tangle of abnormal vessels, the capsular angioma that he suspected, while leaving the rest of the anatomy intact, was so tricky the operation itself could further destroy neurons, making her worse off and possibly killing her.

In 1976, a tank truck went off an elevated freeway, exploded and released 19 tons of anhydrous ammonia, killing seven people.

The pound had been fluctuating wildly in the money markets of the world and the arbitrage dealers had made a killing.

He took his bow and arrows and, while waiting for his horse to be saddled and readied, he and Captain Argot discussed the various methods of killing a boar and whether one should aim for the eye or the throat.

Killing the arsonist was both heavy-handed and bound to attract further police attention.

A cheaper method, that of cramming victims into trucks and killing them with engine exhaust, was judged unsatisfactory because not enough victims could be asphyxiated at one time.