KILLING


Meaning of KILLING in English

— killingly , adv.

/kil"ing/ , n.

1. the act of a person or thing that kills.

2. the total game killed on a hunt.

3. a quick and unusually large profit or financial gain: a killing in the stock market.

adj.

4. that kills.

5. exhausting: a killing pace.

6. Informal. irresistibly funny.

[ 1400-50; late ME (ger.); see KILL 1 , -ING 1 , -ING 2 ]

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