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Definition of killing in English: killingnoun ˈkɪlɪŋˈkɪlɪŋ An act of causing death, especially deliberately. （尤指故意的）致死 the community was shocked by the brutal killings mass noun years of killing and destruction Example sentencesExamples - There are documented cases of rape as a tool of war, mass killings and kidnappings.
- He is also writing about his memories of the deaths, some of which were notorious killings.
- Murder, including serial killings, fall under the jurisdiction of state authorities.
- But they are quick to seize on other killings to try to justify the occupation.
- From now on things worsened with killings and bombings almost a regular occurrence.
- Extra police and troops were at once moved into the area but it is feared that more killings are likely.
- This is the way things are done here and if this money will stop any sort of revenge killings then it is worth it.
- Scotland Yard do not connect the present murders with those earlier killings.
- Vernon ends up taking the rap for the killings and is sentenced to death.
- A few public men, carried away by the excitement, attempted to justify these killings.
- I came to know of the killings of my parents only about a year after their death.
- It is a poison which has only ever been used for one-on-one killings and attempted killings.
- The village of Murma is in shock over the brutal killings of two young boys by their teacher.
- An appeal for information on the killings is reported to have yielded no response.
- Officers at the scene said it was one of the most brutal killings they had ever seen.
- Between them they have amassed hundreds of years in sentences and committed numerous killings.
- Everyone assumes that killings are political, and no serious investigations take place.
- There are equally new accounts on how the machetes and axes used in the killings were imported.
- The brutal killings, many of which were committed using knives and swords, had begun.
- It's widely acknowledged that the killings are the result of a drug related turf war.
Synonyms murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, putting/doing to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage, bloodshed, destruction, decimation, extermination, eradication, annihilation, wiping out, extinction patricide, matricide, parricide, infanticide, filicide literary slaying
adjective ˈkɪlɪŋˈkɪlɪŋ 1Causing death. 致死的，致命的 Example sentencesExamples - Once the strands unite, the wild blight fungus contracts the disease and its killing power wanes.
- A pair of Staffordshire Terrier crosses mauled three cats to death and attacked a woman during a horrific killing spree on a Southampton estate.
- Sights like this, a whale beached off Cairns, found with six square metres of plastic in its body cavity, have caused outrage at the killing capacity of the plastic bag.
- This killing stock transmits death to the branches upon it.
- Cancer is one of the four big killing diseases in childhood; after leukaemia, tumours of the central nervous system are the most common cancers in childhood.
- I don't wanna tell tales outta school, but the grand dame may very well be a calculating, emotionless killing machine, a veritable monster amongst us lambs.
- Police found that Huang would tempt his victims into lying on the killing machine and suddenly strangle them to death with a strap.
- Conan eventually grows up and goes on a killing spree to avenge his parents' death.
- Those cute floppy paws are like that because they're spring-loaded killing machines, ideal for thwacking seals to death.
- Those who did not starve to death were murdered in specially designed killing centres.
- That really gets Benjamin Martin's attention, saddens him almost to death and puts him in a killing mode.
- They thought they could teach me to be the ultimate killing machine if they'd beat me to death.
- Most are fighting chickens he breeds for death in the killing pits across the state line in Louisiana.
- First we had the privilege of enjoying Baise-Moi, a tale of female empowerment through an orgiastic killing spree, that failed to disturb simply because it was so shockingly bad.
- Yes, I know it's hard to believe we had nature's fastest and most perfect killing machine nesting mere yards from us and we got fascinated by heron feet.
- So it's up to Alice and a bunch of highly-trained killing machines to escape Raccoon City before Umbrella nukes the town and… oh, who cares?
- These were the prototypes for the death camps, and refinement of systematic killing methods for large numbers of people was part of the deal.
- But then the next day something happened that slowly transformed the killing despair of the jail and dispersed the power of death.
- Have we forgotten all the lessons of how to prevent this killing disease?
- States, led by the killing machines of Texas and Florida, are putting to death women, children, the sick, and the mentally ill.
Synonyms deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, death-dealing, causing death, life-threatening, final, destructive, dangerous murderous, homicidal literary deathly 2informal Exhausting or unbearable. 〈非正式〉使人筋疲力尽的；难以忍受的 Example sentencesExamples - Sounds like a killing timetable dear - try to take care of yourself in all this!
- DH is the supervisor of the maintenance area and is having problems keeping people, and the killing schedule is a big part of the reason.
- Fatigue is the killing weight of expectation; and that burden is another good reason for fearing the worst.
Synonyms exhausting, gruelling, punishing, taxing, draining, wearing, prostrating, sapping, crushing, tiring, fatiguing, debilitating, enervating, arduous, tough, demanding, onerous, strenuous, rigorous, relentless, unsparing, grinding, formidable informal murderous, back-breaking British informal knackering unbearable, intolerable, unendurable, not to be borne, more than one can bear, more than flesh and blood can stand, insupportable, impossible cruel, heartbreaking, painful, excruciating, agonizing, grievous - 2.1dated Extremely funny.
〈旧〉极其滑稽的 Synonyms hilarious, hysterically funny, outrageously funny, too funny for words, uproarious, riotous, comic, comical, chucklesome, amusing, laughable, absurd, ludicrous, outrageous informal priceless, side-splitting, a scream, a hoot, rib-tickling, killingly funny, screamingly funny
Phrasesinformal Have a great financial success. 获得巨大财政收益，致富 they're a safe investment, you can make a killing overnight 这些是安全投资，你可以一夜暴富。 Example sentencesExamples - The despised London Yuppies making a killing out of the stock market and privatisation, I could understand their pact with the devil but what reward did our town get from the Tories?
- If a 14-year-old with a Net connection could move markets and make a killing, all that supposed training and experience of financial analysts was an elaborate fiction.
- In the short term, anybody with a view to making a killing will be disappointed.
- The companies and financial advisers involved made a killing from selling these policies - until the consequences began to come to light.
- With a 20 quid bet at 20-1 on him polling 500 votes or more, he was quietly confident of making a killing.
- I do know the guys on the border are making a killing.
- In fact, it was the Americans who were making a killing.
- Meanwhile Santos and its partners Magellan and Oilmin, which are selling crude at the ruling world parity price, are making a killing.
- Someone is making a killing - and it isn't the artists.
- The merchants in the Village are making a killing.
Synonyms make a large profit, make a fortune, make one's fortune, gain, profit, make money, be successful, be lucky
Derivativesadverbˈkɪlɪŋliˈkɪlɪŋli The show is killingly funny and the cast rise to the occasions that are presented to them with a panache rarely seen in ensemble playing. Example sentencesExamples - This premise provides the author with the most marvellous springboard on which he launches some killingly funny lines, some serious observations, and some fantastic opportunities for his cast.
- To my mind, Alan's film is daring, experimental, ballsy - it's something new, for Christ's sake, new! - and killingly funny.
- It seems a strange role for him, very British in its humour and, on the page at least, killingly unfunny.
- The story gives us one killingly funny observation after another: ‘Parker and his graduate student colleagues liked to theorize about the real world.’
Rhymesdeskilling, filling, grilling, Pilling, quilling, Schilling, self-fulfilling, shilling, Trilling, unfulfilling, willing Definition of killing in US English: killingnounˈkɪlɪŋˈkiliNG An act of causing death, especially deliberately. （尤指故意的）致死 Example sentencesExamples - But they are quick to seize on other killings to try to justify the occupation.
- An appeal for information on the killings is reported to have yielded no response.
- Officers at the scene said it was one of the most brutal killings they had ever seen.
- From now on things worsened with killings and bombings almost a regular occurrence.
- Extra police and troops were at once moved into the area but it is feared that more killings are likely.
- This is the way things are done here and if this money will stop any sort of revenge killings then it is worth it.
- Vernon ends up taking the rap for the killings and is sentenced to death.
- It is a poison which has only ever been used for one-on-one killings and attempted killings.
- A few public men, carried away by the excitement, attempted to justify these killings.
- The brutal killings, many of which were committed using knives and swords, had begun.
- Between them they have amassed hundreds of years in sentences and committed numerous killings.
- The village of Murma is in shock over the brutal killings of two young boys by their teacher.
- Murder, including serial killings, fall under the jurisdiction of state authorities.
- There are documented cases of rape as a tool of war, mass killings and kidnappings.
- I came to know of the killings of my parents only about a year after their death.
- It's widely acknowledged that the killings are the result of a drug related turf war.
- Everyone assumes that killings are political, and no serious investigations take place.
- Scotland Yard do not connect the present murders with those earlier killings.
- There are equally new accounts on how the machetes and axes used in the killings were imported.
- He is also writing about his memories of the deaths, some of which were notorious killings.
Synonyms murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
adjectiveˈkɪlɪŋˈkiliNG 1Causing death. 致死的，致命的 in combination weed-killing Example sentencesExamples - Those cute floppy paws are like that because they're spring-loaded killing machines, ideal for thwacking seals to death.
- So it's up to Alice and a bunch of highly-trained killing machines to escape Raccoon City before Umbrella nukes the town and… oh, who cares?
- Cancer is one of the four big killing diseases in childhood; after leukaemia, tumours of the central nervous system are the most common cancers in childhood.
- Once the strands unite, the wild blight fungus contracts the disease and its killing power wanes.
- They thought they could teach me to be the ultimate killing machine if they'd beat me to death.
- Have we forgotten all the lessons of how to prevent this killing disease?
- Those who did not starve to death were murdered in specially designed killing centres.
- First we had the privilege of enjoying Baise-Moi, a tale of female empowerment through an orgiastic killing spree, that failed to disturb simply because it was so shockingly bad.
- States, led by the killing machines of Texas and Florida, are putting to death women, children, the sick, and the mentally ill.
- These were the prototypes for the death camps, and refinement of systematic killing methods for large numbers of people was part of the deal.
- Yes, I know it's hard to believe we had nature's fastest and most perfect killing machine nesting mere yards from us and we got fascinated by heron feet.
- A pair of Staffordshire Terrier crosses mauled three cats to death and attacked a woman during a horrific killing spree on a Southampton estate.
- Police found that Huang would tempt his victims into lying on the killing machine and suddenly strangle them to death with a strap.
- I don't wanna tell tales outta school, but the grand dame may very well be a calculating, emotionless killing machine, a veritable monster amongst us lambs.
- Most are fighting chickens he breeds for death in the killing pits across the state line in Louisiana.
- Sights like this, a whale beached off Cairns, found with six square metres of plastic in its body cavity, have caused outrage at the killing capacity of the plastic bag.
- That really gets Benjamin Martin's attention, saddens him almost to death and puts him in a killing mode.
- But then the next day something happened that slowly transformed the killing despair of the jail and dispersed the power of death.
- This killing stock transmits death to the branches upon it.
- Conan eventually grows up and goes on a killing spree to avenge his parents' death.
Synonyms deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, death-dealing, causing death, life-threatening, final, destructive, dangerous - 1.1informal Exhausting; unbearable.
〈非正式〉使人筋疲力尽的；难以忍受的 the suspense will be killing 挂虑总是让人难以忍受。 Example sentencesExamples - Fatigue is the killing weight of expectation; and that burden is another good reason for fearing the worst.
- DH is the supervisor of the maintenance area and is having problems keeping people, and the killing schedule is a big part of the reason.
- Sounds like a killing timetable dear - try to take care of yourself in all this!
Synonyms exhausting, gruelling, punishing, taxing, draining, wearing, prostrating, sapping, crushing, tiring, fatiguing, debilitating, enervating, arduous, tough, demanding, onerous, strenuous, rigorous, relentless, unsparing, grinding, formidable unbearable, intolerable, unendurable, not to be borne, more than one can bear, more than flesh and blood can stand, insupportable, impossible - 1.2dated Overwhelmingly funny.
〈旧〉极其滑稽的 Synonyms hilarious, hysterically funny, outrageously funny, too funny for words, uproarious, riotous, comic, comical, chucklesome, amusing, laughable, absurd, ludicrous, outrageous
Phrasesinformal Have a great financial success. 获得巨大财政收益，致富 they're a safe investment, you can make a killing overnight 这些是安全投资，你可以一夜暴富。 Example sentencesExamples - The despised London Yuppies making a killing out of the stock market and privatisation, I could understand their pact with the devil but what reward did our town get from the Tories?
- If a 14-year-old with a Net connection could move markets and make a killing, all that supposed training and experience of financial analysts was an elaborate fiction.
- I do know the guys on the border are making a killing.
- Someone is making a killing - and it isn't the artists.
- In the short term, anybody with a view to making a killing will be disappointed.
- In fact, it was the Americans who were making a killing.
- Meanwhile Santos and its partners Magellan and Oilmin, which are selling crude at the ruling world parity price, are making a killing.
- With a 20 quid bet at 20-1 on him polling 500 votes or more, he was quietly confident of making a killing.
- The merchants in the Village are making a killing.
- The companies and financial advisers involved made a killing from selling these policies - until the consequences began to come to light.
Synonyms make a large profit, make a fortune, make one's fortune, gain, profit, make money, be successful, be lucky
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