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Kill off

//kɪl ɔf// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To eliminate, or make extinct. transitive

    "We killed off the Dodo by over-hunting."

  2. 2
    kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many wordnet
  3. 3
    Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.

    "The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera."

  4. 4
    To put an end to. figuratively, transitive

    "(Jason) The only thing I had handy to send them was this one dinky little program I'd written for fun. (Mom) And it killed off interest? (Jason) Actually, it killed off the Internet."

Etymology

From kill + off.

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