KILLING


Meaning of KILLING in English

n. 25B6; noun a brutal killing : MURDER, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, elimination, putting/doing to death, execution; slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage, bloodshed, extermination, annihilation; poetic/literary slaying.

25B6; adjective

a killing blow : DEADLY, lethal, fatal, mortal, death-dealing; murderous, homicidal; poetic/literary deathly.

(informal) a killing schedule : EXHAUSTING, gruelling, punishing, taxing, draining, wearing, prostrating, crushing, tiring, fatiguing, debilitating, enervating, arduous, tough, demanding, onerous, strenuous, rigorous; informal murderous; Brit. informal knackering.

(informal) the suspense is killing : UNBEARABLE, intolerable, unendurable, insupportable.

(informal, dated) that's absolutely killing : HILARIOUS, hysterically funny, uproarious, riotous, comical, amusing; informal priceless, side-splitting.

25A0; make a killing (informal) MAKE A LARGE PROFIT, make a/one's fortune, make money; informal clean up, make a packet, make a pretty penny; Brit. informal make a bomb; N. Amer. informal make big bucks.

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