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# killing

«killing» in Mova's school dictionary: **causing someone or something to 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

noun (a killing, killings); verb form of kill (kill, kills, killed, killing); adjective (killing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Killing is causing someone or something to die. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#m1)

2) A killing is a murder or a death caused on purpose, as reported in the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#m2)

3) (informal) To make a killing means to make a lot of money quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#m3)

4) (slang) «You're killing me!» means «You're so funny» or «You're annoying me»; «My feet are killing me» means they hurt a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is used for germs (soap is killing bacteria) and food chains; in news it is a serious crime word. In everyday slang it is about laughter, pain or money. Phrases: «make a killing», «killing time», «killing me».

### examples

- The lion is killing a zebra for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x1)
- Soap helps by killing germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x2)
- The police are investigating a killing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x3)
- Killing animals for fun is cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x4)
- They made a killing selling ice creams on the hot day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x5)
- We were killing time before the film started. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x6)
- (slang) Stop, you're killing me! That joke is so funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x7)
- (informal) These new shoes are killing my feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x8)
- When you have succeeded in killing one come and tell me." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/killing/#x9)

### note

Kill is regular: killed, killing. «Killing time» means doing something just to fill time while waiting. Serious killing words are not for jokes about real people.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [There are no confirmed cases of wild orcas killing a person.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/11/)
- [People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant: toilets, killing and giving pets away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/0/)
- ["Pest control" means killing unwanted animals such as rats or mice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/19/)
- [War means killing and destruction, and the people who start or run wars often do not want to say that plainly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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