Define kill. kill synonyms, kill pronunciation, kill translation, English dictionary definition of kill. v. killed , kill·ing , kills v. tr. 1. a. To put to death: Who killed Julius Caesar? b. To deprive of life: Smallpox killed millions of people in the 1900s....
Kill, execute, murder all mean to deprive of life. Kill is the general word, with no implication of the manner of killing, the agent or cause, or the nature of what is killed (whether human being, animal, or plant): to kill a person.
Kill is the general word, meaning simply to deprive of life, whether wrongfully (Ex. xx. 13), accidentally, in self-defense, in war, or by process of law. Slay is a less commonplace word with the same meaning as kill.
kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed) (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of. quotations
