{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "kɪl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/kill.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/kill.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin.\n\nPerhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).\nOr, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).\nOr, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).\nCompare also Middle Dutch killen, kellen (“to kill”), Middle Low German killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).", "Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille.", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.\nSmoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To render inoperative.\nHe killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.\nThe editor decided to kill the story.\nThe news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.\nMy computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.\nThat night, she was dressed to kill.\nThat joke always kills me." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.\nThese tight shoes are killing my feet." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.\nIt kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.\nIt kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To use up or to waste.\nI'm just doing this to kill time." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.\nLook at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore." }, { "mean": "(transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.\nThe team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To force a company out of business." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.\nYou don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill." }, { "mean": "(figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.\nMy parents are going to kill me!" }, { "mean": "(transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point." }, { "mean": "(transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay." }, { "mean": "To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy." }, { "mean": "(mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero." }, { "mean": "(computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network." }, { "mean": "(metallurgy) To deadmelt." }, { "mean": "(slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way." }, { "mean": "(reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.\nDon't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The act of killing.\nThe assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives." }, { "mean": "Specifically, the death blow.\nThe hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head." }, { "mean": "The result of killing; that which has been killed.\nThe fox dragged its kill back to its den." }, { "mean": "(volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.\nThe channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.\nSchuylkill, Catskill, etc." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(rare) Alternative form of kiln\n1878, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain from Pre-historic Times Down to the Present Day, page 39:This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes, dishes.\n1945, Arthur Edwin James, The Potters and Potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania, page 34:The stack of one of the pottery kills is still a visible land mark of this once thriving industry.\n1951, Bulletin - Eastern States Archeological Federation, page 11:A funerary ceremony comparable to that reported from Kolomoki site is indicated, though no \"pottery kill” was located.\n2000, Argo - Volume 43, Issue 1, page 59:We may indeed assume that cracked and broken ware was discarded in the immediate vicinity of the pottery kills, that is, if it was not thrown in to the Krka.\n2015, Kirilka Stavreva, Words Like Daggers (page 77)\nAdmonished that she should “keep the woman's virtue and be more silent,” she countered “that she was 'born in a mill, begot in a kill, she must have her will,' she could speak no softlier.”" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(to put to death): assassinate, bump off, dispatch, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack", "(to use up or waste): fritter away, while away", "(to render inoperative): break, deactivate, disable, turn off", "(to exert an overwhelming effect on): annihilate (informal)", "(to exert oneself to an excessive degree): bust one's ass (vulgar, slang)", "See also Thesaurus:kill" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }