Kill
A kiln.
A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book.
To cause to cease; to quell; to calm; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind.
To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid.
The act of killing.
An animal killed in the hunt, as by a beast of prey.
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Kill Quotations
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
John F. Kennedy
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
Kill Translations
kill in Dutch is ombrengen, doodmaken, doden
kill in Italian is uccidere
kill in Latin is caedo, iuguolo
kill in Norwegian is drepe
kill in Spanish is matar
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