Word Meanings - KILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kiln. Fuller.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KILL)

• Extinguish
• Abolish
• destroy
• extirpate
• eradicate
• kill
• quench
• annihilate
• put out
• Smite
• Strike
• beat
• buffet
• chastise
• blast
• afflict
• slay
• punish
• surprise
• captivate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of KILL)

• Restore
• expand
• swell

Related words: (words related to KILL)

• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CHASTISER
  One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• BLASTOPHORE
  That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
• BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
  Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• ABOLISH
  1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly. 2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. And with thy blood abolish
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• BLAST
  blastr, OHG. blast, and fr. a verb akin to Icel. blasa to blow, OHG. blâsan, Goth. bl ; all prob. from the same root as E. blow. 1. A violent gust of wind. And see where surly Winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts;
• AFFLICTIONLESS
  Free from affliction.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• MESOBLASTIC
  Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.