[kɪl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cause the death of (a person, animal, or other living thing)
(e.g: her father was killed in a car crash)

- put an end to or cause the failure or defeat of (something)
(e.g: two fast goals from Dublin killed any hopes of a famous Sligo victory)

- overwhelm (someone) with an emotion
(e.g: the suspense is killing me)

- pass (time, or a specified amount of it), typically while waiting for a particular event
(e.g: when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill)


Phrases:
- be in at the kill
- go for the kill
- if it kills one
- kill oneself laughing
- kill or cure
- kill someone with kindness
- kill two birds with one stone

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘strike, beat’, also ‘put to death’): probably of Germanic origin and related to quell. The noun originally denoted a stroke or blow

[kɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of killing, especially of one animal by another
(e.g: a lion has made a kill)


Phrases:
- be in at the kill
- go for the kill
- if it kills one
- kill oneself laughing
- kill or cure
- kill someone with kindness
- kill two birds with one stone

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘strike, beat’, also ‘put to death’): probably of Germanic origin and related to quell. The noun originally denoted a stroke or blow

[kɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (in place names, especially in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) a stream, creek, or tributary
(e.g: Kill Van Kull)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century: from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille ‘riverbed, channel’