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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: killing

1	n	the act of terminating a life
2	n	a very large profit
3	adj	very funny

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: killing

n the act of terminating a life

Synonyms:: kill, putting to death

Examples:: final solution
the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945; Alamo
a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico; Battle of the Little Bighorn
a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command

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the blow that kills (usually mercifully); death
the act of killing; 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
killing a person or animal; fell
the act of felling something (as a tree); self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide
the act of killing yourself; 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
the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity; electrocution
killing by electric shock; beheading, decapitation
killing by cutting off the head; genocide, race murder, racial extermination
systematic killing of a racial or cultural group; honor killing
an ancient tradition still sometimes observed; a male member of the family kills a female relative for tarnishing the family image; manslaughter
homicide without malice aforethought; execution, murder, slaying
unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being; assisted suicide
suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible; felo-de-se
an act of deliberate self destruction; hara-kiri, harakiri, harikari, seppuku
ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society; suttee
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband; gassing
the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas; shooting
killing someone by gunfire; choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling
the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; hecatomb
a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen; immolation
killing or offering as a sacrifice

Type of:: conclusion, ending, termination
the act of ending something

n an event that causes someone to die

Synonyms:: violent death

Type of:: fatality, human death
a death resulting from an accident or a disaster

n a very large profit

Synonyms:: cleanup

Type of:: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits
the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)

adj very funny

“a killing joke”

Synonyms:: sidesplitting

: humorous, humourous
full of or characterized by humor

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