I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a revenge killing
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Her death was followed by a series of revenge killings.
an explosion kills sb
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Last year, an underground explosion killed 82 miners.
be killed/injured in a clash
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Eight people were killed in clashes between the army and police.
be killed/wounded in action (= killed or wounded while fighting )
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Four of her sons have been killed in action.
have time to kill (= have time to do something unimportant while waiting for something )
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I still had some time to kill, so I thought I’d make a couple of phone calls.
honour killing
indiscriminate attacks/killing/violence/bombing etc
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terrorists responsible for indiscriminate killing
kill time (= spend time doing something unimportant while waiting for something )
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He was just killing time before his appointment.
killed outright
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The passenger was killed outright .
killed...with his bare hands
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He had killed a man with his bare hands .
mercy killing
my feet are killing me informal (= my feet are hurting )
report sb/sth missing/injured/killed
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The plane was reported missing.
shoot to kill (= shoot at someone with the intention of killing them )
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The soldiers had orders to shoot to kill .
the suspense is killing me (= I feel very excited or anxious because I do not know what will happen next )
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Come on then, tell me what happened; the suspense is killing me .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bird
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Vermin, he called them, when she protested at killing a sitting bird .
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Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
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Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
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Wind farms also take up huge tracts of land and can kill birds caught in turbine blades.
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It plans to issue general licences entitling landowners to kill unwanted birds on their property.
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In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
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Perhaps this boy knows something about them, he thought ... Something has been killing rabbits and birds in the woods lately.
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Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
■ VERB
want
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He did nothing to them, but they want to kill him.
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Without knowing the details, I wanted to kill Howie.
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I don't want to kill their dreams.
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You want us to get killed ?
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Zadak wanted to kill me, but I killed him.
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He possessed no sense of reverence for the giant fish and wanted to kill them all without Understanding his primitive motivation.
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Why should I have wanted to kill him?
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A state is totally up against it when it wants to kill somebody.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
curiosity killed the cat
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The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat - you stayed indoors if there was trouble.
dressed to kill
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In her black velvet cocktail dress, Elaine Russell was dressed to kill.
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Erica, who had been dressed to kill when he got to the flat, had agreed.
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He is dressed to kill with no place to go.
drive-by shooting/killing
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A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.
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A second drive-by shooting March 19 was linked to another gang.
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All we get is this stereotyping of violence that I believe leads to drive-by shootings.
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As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.
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G., was killed March 9 in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting.
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One person died in a drive-by shooting and several were injured.
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The last attack was a drive-by shooting about 3 a. m. June 1.
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Your son was killed in a drive-by shooting.
if looks could kill
kill sth stone dead
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Indeed, as expectations can kill the magic stone dead, such occasions are often evoked by going somewhere completely new.
make a killing
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Alexander recalled making a killing in the stock market in the '80s.
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He had made a killing on the stock exchange that morning.
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Vito's a debonair middle-aged New Yorker, who's made a killing in advertising.
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After making a killing on other Trump casino bonds, he sold them recently.
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Boy, if you only knew what corporate insiders knew, you could make a killing on a stock, right?
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But an on-the-ball whisky shop could make a killing with its special EC-label malt Scotch at £27.70 a bottle.
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Buy speculative stuff and you can make a killing or get killed, depending which way the wind blows.
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Not strongly enough to kill me for that, but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also.
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They're a safe investment, but in love you can make a killing overnight.
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They should make a killing today.
run out the clock/kill the clock
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A car drove onto the pavement, killing three of Mrs Maguire's children.
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Alan wore a dress to the party? That kills me!
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Carrie will kill me if I forget her birthday.
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Could you give me something to kill the pain?
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He claims that he didn't mean to kill his wife.
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I was early, so I sat in a café, killing time.
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Is it morally acceptable to kill animals for food?
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James Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955.
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Losing funding now would kill the project.
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Many people do not realize that these drugs are dangerous and can kill .
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Mr Howard released a statement in an effort to kill speculation in the press.
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My sixteen-year-old son Louis was killed by a drunk driver two years ago.
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Noland is accused of killing her stepfather.
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Official sources say that 20 people were killed in last night's air raids.
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Quick! Kill the lights.
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Smoking kills.
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The disease has already killed more than 2000 in Latin America.
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The explosion killed 32 people.
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The gunman killed 22 people and wounded 15, before turning his gun on himself.
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The police believe the man may kill again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During his address, some shots were fired, two men were killed, and several wounded.
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He told Creon that Thebes would be save only if Menoeceus was killed.
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He was capable of killing a man with his bare hands.
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I thought he had been in a car accident that had killed everyone else.
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On May 3, 1885, police fired into a crowd of strikers in Chicago, wounding many and killing four.
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Some one possessing special strength or skill attacks and kills the monster or drives him away.
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The second Returner had killed two men, and had also been destroyed in the process before full analysis could commence.
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They've tried to kill me.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gangland killing/murder/shooting etc
dressed to kill
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In her black velvet cocktail dress, Elaine Russell was dressed to kill.
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Erica, who had been dressed to kill when he got to the flat, had agreed.
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He is dressed to kill with no place to go.
drive-by shooting/killing
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A family of illegal aliens is peppered with shotgun pellets in a drive-by shooting.
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A second drive-by shooting March 19 was linked to another gang.
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All we get is this stereotyping of violence that I believe leads to drive-by shootings.
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As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.
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G., was killed March 9 in a Los Angeles drive-by shooting.
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One person died in a drive-by shooting and several were injured.
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The last attack was a drive-by shooting about 3 a. m. June 1.
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Your son was killed in a drive-by shooting.
if looks could kill
kill sth stone dead
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Indeed, as expectations can kill the magic stone dead, such occasions are often evoked by going somewhere completely new.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Shoot only if you are confident of a kill .
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The winning point came on a kill by Amy Earle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you can never effect a total kill .
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In 1963, too, the sperm-whale kill reached its peak, claiming about thirty thousand of the great beasts.
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That lasted only a few seconds; then the leopard got a good hold on its kill .
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The snakes are sometimes hard to find, so the Webers never miss a chance to make a kill .
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This was his fourth patrol of the day and only his first kill of the week.