English

Verb

Sense: to put to death; to extinguish life.

Synonyms

• annihilate
• bag
• baptize
• bereave of life
• blight
• bring down
• bump off
• bury
• cack(US slang)
• compromised to a permanent end
• croak
• crush
• dash   [⇒ thesaurus]
• deactivate
• dead   [⇒ thesaurus]
• demolish
• destroy   [⇒ thesaurus]
• dispatch
• dispose of
• do(slang)
• do in
• dust
• eliminate
• end   [⇒ thesaurus]
• eradicate
• ex
• exterminate
• finish   [⇒ thesaurus]
• finish off
• flatten
• grease
• knock off
• lay waste to
• make away with
• mortify (obsolete)
• neutralize
• obliterate
• off
• pay off
• pick off
• polish off
• pop off
• punch someone's ticket
• put an end to
• put down
• put someone out of their misery
• put six feet under
• put to sleep
• ravage
• rub out
• ruin
• scotch
• scupper
• scuttle
• send to eternity
• send to hell
• send to the grave
• send to the great beyond
• send to the next life
• slay
• slaughter
• smash
• smite
• snuff
• squash
• stiff   [⇒ thesaurus]
• stop someone's clock
• take   [⇒ thesaurus]
• terminate
• terminate with extreme prejudice
• top off (UK, slang)
• top (UK, slang)
• torpedo
• take care of
• take down
• take out
• waste
• wax
• wet   [⇒ thesaurus]
• whack
• wipe out
• wreck

Hyponyms

• assassinate
• bump off
• burke
• do away with
• duppy(UK, slang)
• hit   [⇒ thesaurus]
• ice (slang)
• knock off
• liquidate (informal)
• murder
• settle
• whack
•   —
• execute   [⇒ thesaurus]
• put to death
•   —
• drown
• dunk
• send to a watery grave
•   —
• dangle
• hang
• lynch
• swing
• scrag
• string up
• send to the gallows
• throw a necktie party
• trine(thieves' cant)
•   —
• choke
• garrote
• garrotte
• strangle
• throttle
•   —
• asphyxiate
• burke
• smother
• stifle
• suffocate
•   —
• crucify
•   —
• blast
• blow a hole in
• blow away
• blow apart
• blow to kingdom come
• blow up
• cap
• fusillade
• gun down
• light up
• mow down
• plug   [⇒ thesaurus]
• put a bullet in
• pump full of lead
• put before a firing squad
• shoot
• shoot down
• smoke
• zip
•   —
• burn   [⇒ thesaurus]
• fire
• flame
• immolate
• scorch
•   —
• defenestrate
•   —
• disembowel
• dismember
• draw and quarter
• eviscerate
• jugulate
• gut
• rip up
• tear up
• tear apart
• tear limb from limb
• vivisect
•   —
• behead
• decapitate
• guillotine
• lop head off
• put on the block
•   —
• bayonet
• impale   [⇒ thesaurus]
• knife
• put to the sword
• run through
• saber
• stab   [⇒ thesaurus]
•   —
• electrocute
• fry
• send to the chair
•   —
• lapidate
• stone
•   —
• suicide   [⇒ thesaurus]
• suicided
•   —
• burke
• butcher
• cut down
• euthanize
• massacre
• pull the plug on
• send to an early grave
• send to the iron maiden

Antonyms

• save
• rescue
•   —
• resurrect
• revive
• raise
• reanimate
• reawaken
• requicken
• revivify
• raise from the dead
• vitalise
• vivificate
• vivify
•   —
• give birth
• birth(dated)
• germinate
• spawn
• whelp(of dogs, wolves, etc.)

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