kill: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with K · ends with L
Meaning of kill
verb
- transitive
To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
Example: Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
- transitive
To render inoperative.
Example: He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- figuratively, transitive
To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
Example: The editor decided to kill the story.
- excessive, figuratively, transitive
To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
Example: That night, she was dressed to kill.
Listed forms: kills, killing, killed, glossary, killest.
Source: Wiktionary — kill.
noun
The act of killing.
Example: The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
Specifically, the death blow.
Example: The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
Example: The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
- countable
An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
Example: confirmed kills
Listed forms: kills.
Source: Wiktionary — kill.
noun
- New-York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal
A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
Example: The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
- New-York, Northeastern, US, archaic, dialectal
A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea. In particular, a waterway with a name ending in kill, such as the Beaverkill or the East Kill.
Example: We're gonna go flyfishing over in the kill.
Listed forms: kills.
Source: Wiktionary — kill.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for kill.
noun
the act of terminating a life
- killing
- putting to death
verb
thwart the passage of
- shoot down
- defeat
- vote down
- vote out
verb
end or extinguish by forceful means
- stamp out
verb
drink down entirely
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is kill in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of kill
K(5) + I(1) + L(1) + L(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of kill
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from kill
5 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in kill. Showing up to 24, longest first.