Definition of killing Killing
/kɪˈlɪŋ/ - [kiling] - kill•ing
We found 13 definitions of killing from 4 different sources.
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What does killing mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: killings |
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| killing - the act of terminating a life | ||
| kill, putting to death | ||
| ending, termination, conclusion the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
| coup de grace, deathblow the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | ||
| death the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience" | ||
| euthanasia, mercy killing the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) | ||
| homicide the killing of a human being by another human being | ||
| despatch, dispatch the act of sending off something | ||
| fell the act of felling something (as a tree) | ||
| self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide the act of destroying yourself; "his insistence was pure self-destruction" | ||
| slaughter the killing of animals (as for food) | ||
| poisoning the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | ||
| asphyxiation, suffocation killing by depriving of oxygen | ||
| ritual killing, sacrifice (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | ||
| electrocution killing by electric shock | ||
| beheading, decapitation killing by cutting off the head | ||
| killing - an event that causes someone to die | ||
| violent death | ||
| human death, fatality the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters | ||
| killing - a very large profit | ||
| cleanup | ||
| net income, net profit, earnings, lucre, profit, profits, net the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
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| killing - very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" | ||
| sidesplitting | ||
| humorous, humourous full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- killing (Noun)
An instance of someone being killed. - killing (Noun)
A large amount of money. - killing (Verb)
Present participle of kill. - killing (Adjective)
That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal. - killing (Adjective)
Devastatingly attractive. - killing (Adjective)
That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- killing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Kill - killing (a.)
Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
