Crossword clues for killing
killing
- Thwart the passage of
- Put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- Tire out completely
- Cause to die
- (informal) a very large profit
- The act of terminating a life
- Be fatal
- Sudden great profit
- Mowat's A Whale For The______
- Large profit, figuratively
- Financial coup, colloquially
- Extremely funny (slang)
- Overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- Hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- Hit with great force, in sports
- Deprive of life
- Mark for deletion, rub off, or erase, as of writings
- Drink down entirely
- Destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- Be the source of great pain for
- Cause to cease operating
- An event that causes someone to die
- End or extinguish by forceful means
- Cause the death of, without intention
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., present participle adjective from kill (v.). Meaning "very funny" is from 1844. As a noun, "large profit," 1886, American English slang.
Wiktionary
1 That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal. 2 Devastatingly attractive. 3 That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny. n. 1 an instance of someone being killed 2 (context informal English) A large amount of money. v
(present participle of kill English)
WordNet
adj. very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" [syn: sidesplitting]
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]
Wikipedia
Killing is causing the death of a living organism.
Killing may also refer to:
Killing is an Italian photo comic series featuring an eponymous character. The series was entitled Satanik in the French edition, Kiling in Argentina as well as being published in Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Germany and Venezuela. Sold as "Photostories for Adults", it ran for 62 issues (19 in France) starting in 1966, and was published by Ponzoni and editor Pietro Granelli with each episode directed by actor and singer Rosario Borelli. The character was also known as KiLiNK, the star of several unauthorized films shot in Turkey during the late 1960s and early 70s. The Argentinean series ran out of the Italian stories and began shooting new adventures that lasted until the 1980s. The series is currently being revived by American editor and comics creator Mort Todd, under the new title, Sadistik: The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal. The documentary about the character The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal directed by SS-Sunda had its US premiere at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, 2009 where it received Special Mention by the judges.
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.