Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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kill | Yes | No | Yes | No |
down | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
kill (noun) | down (noun) |
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the act of terminating a life | (American football) a complete play to advance the football |
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile | soft fine feathers |
the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal | fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) |
(usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil |
kill (adjective) | down (adjective) |
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being or moving lower in position or less in some value | |
filled with melancholy and despondency | |
extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | |
becoming progressively lower | |
not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | |
lower than previously | |
shut | |
being put out in a game of baseball | |
understood perfectly |
kill (verb) | down (verb) |
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mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing |
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in | bring down or defeat (an opponent) |
cause to cease operating | drink down entirely |
tire out completely | eat up completely, as with great appetite |
end or extinguish by forceful means | cause to come or go down |
drink down entirely | shoot at and force to come down |
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly | |
cause the death of, without intention | |
deprive of life | |
hit with great force | |
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games | |
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration | |
be the source of great pain for | |
thwart the passage of | |
be fatal |
kill (adverb) | down (adverb) |
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spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | |
away from a more central or a more northerly place | |
paid in cash at time of purchase | |
in an inactive or inoperative state | |
to a lower intensity | |
from an earlier time |