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KILLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of terminating a life
Synonyms:
kill; killing; putting to death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("killing" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "killing"):
coup de grace; deathblow (the blow that kills (usually mercifully))
death (the act of killing)
euthanasia; mercy killing (the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness))
homicide (the killing of a human being by another human being)
despatch; dispatch (killing a person or animal)
fell (the act of felling something (as a tree))
self-annihilation; self-destruction; suicide (the act of killing yourself)
slaughter (the killing of animals (as for food))
poisoning (the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill)
asphyxiation; suffocation (killing by depriving of oxygen)
ritual killing; sacrifice (the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity)
electrocution (killing by electric shock)
beheading; decapitation (killing by cutting off the head)
genocide; race murder; racial extermination (systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)
Derivation:
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An event that causes someone to die
Synonyms:
killing; violent death
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("killing" is a kind of...):
fatality; human death (a death resulting from an accident or a disaster)
Derivation:
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
kill (cause the death of, without intention)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A very large profit
Synonyms:
cleanup; killing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("killing" is a kind of...):
earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very funny
Example:
sidesplitting antics
Synonyms:
killing; sidesplitting
Classified under:
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb kill
Context examples:
To find answers, Williams and colleague Keith Morrison of ASU set out to identify naturally-occurring antibacterial clays effective at killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)
Once inside, the catalyst converts the inactive panobinostat into its active and toxic form, thus killing off the tumour cell just where we want: right inside the tumour cell.
(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)
The team established that high levels of potassium inside tumors released by dying cancer cells can shut off cancer-killing T cells that have invaded the tumor.
(Harnessing T-cell “stemness” could enhance cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)
Subordinate meerkats die due to sudden, unpredictable circumstances such as exposure to predators, killing them instantly.
(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)
The researchers first determined that the bacterial capsule prevents immune system neutrophils from ingesting and killing ST258.
(Scientists describe potential antibody approach for treating multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, National Institutes of Health)
Then, colleagues from the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, tested the predictions by killing individual neurons from the nematode brain with a laser.
(Fundamental Rules for How The Brain Controls Movement, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Extreme heat exposure is the biggest killer of all climate phenomena in the United States, killing 7,000 people between 1999 and 2010.
(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
This allele, which encodes natural killer cell receptor 2B4 protein, is involved in non-MHC-restricted NK cell killing.
(CD244 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
In the killing of tumor cells, other cells that are rapidly growing e.g hair, mucous membranes are also killed.
(Chemically Induced Cytotoxicity, NCI Thesaurus)
This leads to the induction of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and the killing of NY-ESO-1-expressing tumor cells.
(NY-ESO-1/GLA-SE Vaccine ID-G305, NCI Thesaurus)
