Verb

(en verb)

To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.

There is conclusive evidence that smoking kills .

(fiction) To invent a story that conveys the death of (a character).

Shakespeare killed Romeo and Juliet for drama.

To render inoperative.

He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.

(1978):

:: 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.

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.

(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To amaze, exceed, stun or otherwise incapacitate.

That night, she was dressed to kill .

That joke always kills me.

(figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.

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.

To use up or to waste.

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."

(transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.

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.

(transitive, figuratively, hyperbole) To overpower, overwhelm or defeat.

The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.

To force a company out of business.

(informal) To produce intense pain.

You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill .

(figuratively, informal, hyperbole) To punish severely.

My parents are going to kill me!

(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.

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To occupy fully, to take up all of.

* (Tobias Smollett), translator, (Don Quixote) , part 2, book 5, chapter 4:

* (Charles Dickens), , chapter 38:

And now that I have given the one chapter to the theme that so filled my heart, and so often made it ache and ache again, I pass on, unhindered, to the event that had impended over me longer yet.

(label) To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

* 1950 , , The Bachelors of Broken Hill , chapter 11:

She continued to frown as she filled Bony's cup and added brandy to her own.

* 2005 , (Wendy Coakley-Thompson), , 2006 edition, ISBN 0758207484, page 10 [http://google.com/books?id=D8d9M2Lhe3IC&pg=PA10&dq=fill]:

She forgave him the pain as he filled' the cavity in her back molar. Three weeks later, she let him ' fill a more intimate cavity.

* 2006 , (Gilbert Morris), Sante Fe Woman , , page 95 [http://google.com/books?id=LepY_wtPjvIC&pg=PA95&dq=%22filled+his+plate%22]:

Grat Herendeen was the first man, a huge man with his bull whip coiled and over his shoulder seeming almost a part of him. He grinned at her as she filled his plate with the eggs and motioned toward the bacon. "Help yourself, Grat."

To enter (something), making it full.

* 1910 May 13, John C. Sherwin, opinion, Delashmutt et al. ''v.'' et al.'', reprinted in volume 126, ''(North Western Reporter) , page 359, at 360:

In the evening of the 14th of July, there was a rainfall of 3 or 3½ inches in that locality. The water filled the ditch so full that it overflowed the levees on both sides in many places.

* 2004 , Peter Westen, The Logic of Consent , , ISBN 0754624072, page 322 [http://google.com/books?id=17bAKRvHBkcC&pg=PA322&dq=%22as+the+crowd+filled%22]:

As the crowd filled the aisles, S repeated loudly what he had announced upon entering the stadium: 'I don't want anyone to touch me, and I will call the police if anyone does.'

(label) To become full.

(label) To become pervaded with something.

(label) To satisfy or obey (an order, request or requirement).

(label) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.

* 1866 , , The Negro , pages 18–19 [http://google.com/books?id=E0N-AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA19&dq=filled]:

It is impossible to resist the conclusion, which experience and history tend to prove, that, the continuous movement of such a vast body of mankind has been influenced by natural laws, that, the negro has filled the position for which he is fitted by nature, and, that, his services were brought into use when the emergency arose necessitating his employment.

* 1891 January 23, Allen Morse, opinion, Lawrence ''v.'' Hanley'', reprinted in volume 47, ''Northwestern Reporter , page 753, at 755:

The board of supervisors called a specal(SIC) election to fill the office, and at such special election Henry C. Andrews was elected judge of probate to fill out the said term.

(label) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.

* "Intimate Diagnosis of Diseased Teeth", in Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science and Literature , volume 13, number 11, November 1891, page 657 [http://google.com/books?id=eS21AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA657&dq=%22filled+the+molar%22]:

Be that as it may, had the disturbance continued after our having filled the molar, and presuming that nothing had been done to the bicuspid, we might have been still as far as ever from knowing where the trouble lay.

(label) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.

* Bible, Matthew xv. 33

Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

* Francis Bacon

Things that are sweet and fat are more filling .

To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.