Kill vs Cripple - What's the difference?
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To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
(fiction) To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).
To render inoperative.
:: Peter : Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.
:: Policeman : What did you do to his arm, Peter?
:: Peter''': I '''killed it, with a machine gun.
(figuratively) To stop, cease or render void; to terminate.
(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.
(figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
To use up or to waste.
(transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.
To force a company out of business.
(informal) To produce intense pain.
(figuratively, informal, hyperbole) To punish severely.
(sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
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(mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
(computing, Internet, IRC) To disconnect (a user) forcibly from the network.
The act of killing.
Specifically, the death blow.
The result of killing; that which has been killed.
(volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
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A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
Crippled.
* 1599 — , iv 1
a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
* Dryden
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
scrapple.
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
Kill is a related term of cripple.
In figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between kill and cripple
is that kill is (figuratively) to produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in while cripple is (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy.As verbs the difference between kill and cripple
is that kill is to put to death; to extinguish the life of while cripple is to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.As nouns the difference between kill and cripple
is that kill is the act of killing or kill can be a creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea or kill can be a kiln while cripple is a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.As an adjective cripple is
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English
(wikipedia kill)Etymology 1
From (etyl) killen, kyllen, , (etyl) kellen.Verb
(en verb)- Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.
- There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills .
- Shakespeare killed Romeo and Juliet for drama.
- He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
- (1978):
- The editor decided to kill the story.
- The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
- My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
- That night, she was dressed to kill .
- That joke always kills me.
- It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
- It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
- I'm just doing this to kill time.
- He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."
- Between the two of us, we killed the rest of the case of beer.
- Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.
- The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
- You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill .
- My parents are going to kill me!
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Synonyms
* (to put to death) assassinate, bump off, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack * (to use up or waste) fritter away, while away * (to render inoperative) break, deactivate, disable, turn off * (to exert an overwhelming effect on) annihilate (informal) * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- The assassin liked to make a clean kill , and thus favored small arms over explosives.
- The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
- The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
- As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill' percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 ' kills , ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.
Derived terms
* in for the kill * thrill killEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- The channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill''' van Kull, or the '''Kills .
- Schuylkill''', Cats'''kill , etc.
Etymology 3
cripple
English
(wikipedia cripple)Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Adjective
(en adjective)- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
Noun
(en noun)- He returned from war a cripple .
- I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Synonyms
* disabled personDerived terms
* emotional crippleVerb
(crippl)- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.