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# kill

«kill» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make a person, animal or plant die** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (kill, kills, killed, killing); noun (a kill — an animal killed by another)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make a person, animal or plant die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#m1)

2) Informal: to cause great pain: «My feet are killing me». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#m2)

3) Informal: to stop something: kill the engine, kill time (do something while you wait). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#m3)

4) A noun: an animal killed by a hunter, such as a lion's kill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: food chains — predators kill prey to eat; frost can kill plants; germs can be killed by soap and heat; some poisons kill. In safety: dangerous things like cars, fire, deep water and electricity can kill — that is why the rules are strict. In stories: a villain or a dragon might be killed. Informal phrases are not real killing: «kill time», «killing me», «dressed to kill». Phrases: kill germs, killed in an accident, kill time, killer whale, weed killer.

### examples

- Lions kill zebras for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x1)
- Soap kills germs on your hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x2)
- The frost killed the tomato plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x3)
- Electricity can kill — never touch wires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x4)
- We played cards to kill time at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x5)
- My new shoes are killing me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x6)
- Killer whales are actually large dolphins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x7)
- Weed killer is poison, so keep away from it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: killed. Many informal uses do not mean death: «kill time», «My legs are killing me», «If Mum finds out she'll kill me» (she'll be very cross). Read the context. «Killer whale» is another name for orca.

### In the corpora

- [Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/20/)
- [Leopards drag their kills, sometimes as heavy as themselves, up into trees where lions and hyenas cannot steal them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/5/)
- [Sharks don't hunt humans; bites are very rare and often a mistake, and people kill around 100 million sharks a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/9/)
- [Cork comes from the thick bark of the cork oak, peeled about every 9 years without killing the tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/60-trees/9/)
- [Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.