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kill
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kill (Defeat), verb abolish, abrogate, annul, arrest, beat, block, cancel, check, conficere, counteract, crush, devitalize, dispatch, extinguish, interficere, nullify, overthrow, overturn, prevail over, put down, quash, quell, repress, repulse, revoke, squash, stop, thwart, triumph, trucidare, upset, vanquish
Associated concepts: kill a legislative bill
kill (Murder), verb assassinate, conficere, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, execute, exterminate, injure fatally, interficere, liquidate, massacre, occidere, put to death, slaughter, slay, smite
Associated concepts: deliberate killing, intent to kill, justifiible killing, malicious killing, premeditated killing
See also: destroy, dispatch, efface, eliminate, eradicate, execute, extinguish, prey, remove, repress, slay, stifle
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Worth watching just for his encounter with a lobster, which sees him getting advice from a "lobster whisperer" before moving in for the kill.
BEST OF THE REST by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Cue the Yanks, moving in for the kill, while the board and the Arabs dither.
Football: Brits sitting tight as Star Spangled bankrolls buy up ... by The Mirror (London, England)
Its forest home is reverberating to the sound of chainsaws, and poachers are moving in for the kill.
Here Kitty ..but not for much longer by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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