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kill
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)
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (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.
- 1978, John Farris, The Fury
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (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.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (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)
- The act of killing.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- If ye plunder his kill' from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.
- (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.
- 2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21:
Derived terms
- in for the kill
- thrill kill
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille.
Noun
kill (plural kills)
- (north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
kill (plural kills)
- A kiln.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
Cahuilla
Adverb
kíll
- Not
German
Pronunciation
Verb
kill
- singular imperative of killen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of killen
Livonian
Etymology 1
Related to Finnish kylvää.
Alternative forms
- (Courland) killõ
Verb
kill
- sow
Etymology 2
Related to Estonian kõlama.
Alternative forms
- (Courland) ki'llõ
Verb
kill
- ring
- 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)
- cool
Declension
Related terms
- kal
Etymology 2
Verb
kill
- second-person singular imperative of killen
Ter Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *kielë.
Noun
kill
- 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
- female kid (young goat)
kill From the web:
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- what killed michael jackson
thwart
English
Etymology
The adjective is derived from Early Middle English thwert, thwerte, thuart, thurt, thurte, thwart, thwarte, twart, twarte, twhart, twhert, twort, þuert, þwerrt, þwert, þwerte, ðwert (“crosswise, transverse; counter, opposing; contrary, obstinate”), borrowed from Old Norse þvert (“across, athwart”), originally the neuter form of þverr (“across, transverse”), from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz (“cross; adverse”) (altered or influenced by Proto-Germanic *þweran? (“to stir; to swirl; to turn”)), from Proto-Germanic *þerh-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *terk?- (“to spin; to turn”).
The English adjective is cognate with Danish tvær (“sullen, sulky”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (þwairs, “angry”), Middle Dutch dwers, dwars (modern Dutch dwars (“crosswise, transverse; slantwise, askew; stubbornly disobedient”)), Norwegian tvert, tvært, Old Frisian þweres, dwers (Saterland Frisian twars, West Frisian dwers, dwerz (“across, to the other side of; beyond”)), Middle Low German dwers, dwars (Low German dwars (“contrary; cross-grained”)), Old English þweorh (“transverse; perverse; angry, cross”), Old High German twer (Middle High German twer, quer, modern German quer (“crosswise; cross”)), Swedish tvär (“across, transverse; of a curve: sharp; immediate, sudden; grumpy, stubborn”). It is related to queer.
The adverb is derived from Middle English thwert, ywerte (“crosswise; across the grain”); the Middle English Dictionary suggests the adverb was derived from the adjective, while the Oxford English Dictionary notes that the adverb is attested earlier than the adjective.
The verb is derived from Middle English thwerten, thwert, thwarten, þwerten (“to lie across; to oppose, to thwart”), and further from the adverb and perhaps also the adjective.
Noun sense 1 (“a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit”) may be derived from the adverb or adjective, from the position of the seat across the length of the boat, while noun sense 3 (“(rare) an act of thwarting”) is derived from the verb. Compare Middle English thwert (“in in thwert: crosswise”), from the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??t/
- (General American) enPR: thwôrt, IPA(key): /?w?(?)?t/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t
Adjective
thwart (comparative more thwart, superlative most thwart)
- Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.
- (figuratively, dated) Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.
- Synonyms: cross-grained, froward; see also Thesaurus:obstinate
- (figuratively, dated) Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
- Synonyms: unpropitious, untoward; see also Thesaurus:unlucky
Derived terms
- athwart
- athwartship, athwartships
Related terms
- overthwart
- overthwartly
- overthwartness
Translations
Adverb
thwart (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.
Translations
Preposition
thwart
- (archaic or poetic) Across, athwart.
Verb
thwart (third-person singular simple present thwarts, present participle thwarting, simple past and past participle thwarted)
- (transitive) To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.
- Synonyms: balk, foil, spoil
- Antonym: promote
- (transitive, obsolete) To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
- (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hinder
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- thwarter
- thwartsome
Translations
Noun
thwart (plural thwarts)
- (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- Synonyms: thaught, thawt, (Britain, dialectal) thoft
- (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
- (rare) An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.
Translations
References
Further reading
- thwart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- what thwarted the gunpowder plot
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