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Killing
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- 1 That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
- 2 Devastatingly attractive. dated, idiomatic
"Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost."
- 3 That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny. idiomatic, informal
"Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well."
- 1 very funny wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 The act of killing. countable, uncountable
"In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing."
- 2 the act of terminating a life wordnet
- 3 An instance of someone being killed. countable, uncountable
"The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June."
- 4 an event that causes someone to die wordnet
- 5 A large amount of money. countable, informal, uncountable, usually
"He made a killing on the stock market."
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- 6 a very large profit wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of kill form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill + -ing.
From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill + -ing.
From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill + -ing.
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