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English adjective: killing | |||
| 1. | killing very funny | ||
| Samples | A killing joke. Sidesplitting antics. | ||
| Synonyms | sidesplitting | ||
| Similar | humorous, humourous | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | humorless, humourless, unhumorous | ||
English noun: killing | |||
| 1. | killing (event) an event that causes someone to die | ||
| Synonyms | violent death | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fatality, human death | ||
| 2. | killing (act) the act of terminating a life | ||
| Synonyms | kill, putting to death | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conclusion, ending, termination | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | asphyxiation, beheading, coup de grace, death, deathblow, decapitation, despatch, dispatch, electrocution, euthanasia, fell, genocide, homicide, mercy killing, poisoning, race murder, racial extermination, ritual killing, sacrifice, self-annihilation, self-destruction, slaughter, suffocation, suicide | ||
| 3. | killing (possession) a very large profit | ||
| Synonyms | cleanup | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
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