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
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