Find the synonyms or antonyms of a word



Antonyms for kill off


Grammar : Verb
Spell : kil
Phonetic Transcription : kɪl



Definition of kill off

Origin :
  • c.1200, "to strike, hit, beat, knock;" c.1300, "to deprive of life," perhaps from an unrecorded variant of Old English cwellan "to kill" (see quell), but the earliest sense suggests otherwise. Sense in to kill time is from 1728. Related: Killed; killing. Kill-devil, colloquial for "rum," especially if new or of bad quality, is from 1630s.
  • As in zap : verb destroy
  • As in decimate : verb destroy

Synonyms for kill off

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019