Modifying verbs, esp. verbs expressing violent or persistent action, and sometimes emphasizing verbs already meaning ‘to kill’, as to beat (also st…

To strike or smite off, in two, etc.; to cut or chop off or asunder at one blow; to drive out, etc. by striking. Obsolete exc. archaic. Also †to swa…

transitive. to ding to death (also dead) and variants: to strike dead; to kill. Obsolete (chiefly Scottish in later use).

to knock on (†in) the head (also rarely at head). literal; esp. to stun or kill by a blow on the head; often loosely, to kill in any summary way…

To quiet with a blow; to knock down dead or stunned; to finish, ‘do for’.

transitive. to bowl (one) to death (cf. quot. 1621 at sense 1a), to bowl out of his money, etc.

transitive. To strike, cut, or kill with a tomahawk or similar implement; to attack with, or as if with, a tomahawk.

To kill with a weapon consisting of a stone placed in the foot of a stocking. (Said of a soldier's wife or a camp-follower.) Obsolete.

transitive. slang. To kill, esp. by a blow.

transitive. To strike or dash out by a blow; to stun or kill by a blow.