different between kill vs drown

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin.

• Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljan?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
• Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell)
• Or, 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).

Compare 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”).

Verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

1. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
2. (transitive) To render inoperative.
   • 1978, John Farris, The Fury

     Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.

     Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter?

     Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.

4. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.

5. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.

7. (transitive) To use up or to waste.

8. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.

9. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.

10. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
11. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.

12. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
13. (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.
14. (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
15. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
16. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
17. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
18. (metallurgy) To deadmelt.

Synonyms

• (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)
• See also Thesaurus:kill

Hyponyms

• instakill
• instant kill

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

kill (plural kills)

1. The act of killing.

2. Specifically, the death blow.

3. The result of killing; that which has been killed.

   • If ye plunder his kill' from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.

4. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
   • 2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21:

     As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.

Derived terms

• in for the kill
• thrill kill

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille.

Noun

kill (plural kills)

1. (north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

kill (plural kills)

1. A kiln.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

Cahuilla

Adverb

kíll

1. Not

German

Pronunciation

Verb

kill

1. singular imperative of killen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of killen

Livonian

Etymology 1

Related to Finnish kylvää.

Alternative forms

• (Courland) killõ

Verb

kill

1. sow

Etymology 2

Related to Estonian kõlama.

Alternative forms

• (Courland) ki'llõ

Verb

kill

1. ring
2. make noise

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kil/
• Rhymes: -il

Etymology 1

From Old High German kuoli, from Proto-West Germanic *k?l(?), from Proto-Germanic *k?laz. Cognate with German kühl, English cool, Dutch koel, Low German kool.

Adjective

kill (masculine killen, neuter killt, comparative méi kill, superlative am killsten)

1. cool

Declension

Related terms

• kal

Etymology 2

Verb

kill

1. second-person singular imperative of killen

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kielë.

Noun

kill

1. language

Derived terms

• samekill

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse kið

Noun

kill f

1. female kid (young goat)

English

Etymology

From Middle English drownen, drounen, drunen (“to drown”), of obscure and uncertain origin.

The OED suggests an unattested Old English form *dr?nian . Harper 2001 points to Old English druncnian, ?edruncnian (> Middle English drunknen, dronknen (“to drown”)), "probably influenced" by Old Norse drukkna (cf. Icelandic drukkna, Danish drukne (“to drown”)) . Funk & Wagnall's has 'of uncertain origin'. It has been theorised (see e.g. ODS) that it may represent a direct loan of Old Norse drukkna, but this is described by the OED as being "on phonetic and other grounds [...] highly improbable" , unless one considers the possibility of an unattested variant in Old Norse *drunkna.

Pronunciation

• enPR: droun, IPA^(key): /d?a?n/, [d??????a?n]
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

drown (third-person singular simple present drowns, present participle drowning, simple past and past participle drowned)

1. (intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.

   When I was a baby, I nearly drowned in the bathtub.

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[1]

     Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild;

     Continuance tames the one; the other wild,

     Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still,

     With too much labour drowns for want of skill.

2. (transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.

   The car thief fought with an officer and tried to drown a police dog before being shot while escaping.

   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 2,^[2]

     The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,

     Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown’d on shore,

     With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:

3. (intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.

   We are drowning in information but starving for wisdom.

   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 2:

     Penny Guy: Bloody hell, Rog, whadda you want?
     Roger O'Neill: To drown in your arms and hide in yer eyes, darlin'.

4. (transitive, figuratively) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.

   He drowns his sorrows in buckets of chocolate ice cream.

   • 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum, London: John Standish, p. 19,^[3]

     Though most men being in sensuall pleasures drownd,

     It seemes their Soules but in the Senses are.

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 7,^[4]

     Come, thou monarch of the vine,

     Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!

     In thy fats our cares be drown’d,

     With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d:

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act II, Scene 1, p. 23,^[5]

     My private Voice is drown’d amid the Senate’s.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 14, pp. 71-72,^[6]

     Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

5. (transitive, figuratively, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.

   The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.

Usage notes

When using the term figuratively to describe overwhelming sounds, the form drown out is now usually employed.

Synonyms

• (to cover, as with water): flood, inundate

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• N-word, n-word

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drou?n/

Verb

drown

1. Soft mutation of trown.

Mutation