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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024kill•ing /ˈkɪlɪŋ/USA pronunciation n. - the act of one that kills: [uncountable]Killing is frowned on in most cultures.[countable]two gangland-style killings.
- a quick and unusually large profit or financial gain:[countable]They made quite a killing on that last deal.
adj. - [before a noun] fatal or destructive:striking with killing force.
- exhausting:a killing pace.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Kil•ling•ly (kil′ing lē),USA pronunciation n. - Place Namesa town in NE Connecticut. 14,519.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024kill•ing (kil′ing),USA pronunciation n. - the act of a person or thing that kills.
- the total game killed on a hunt.
- a quick and unusually large profit or financial gain:a killing in the stock market.
adj. - that kills.
- exhausting:a killing pace.
- Informal Termsirresistibly funny.
- 1400–50; late Middle English (gerund, gerundive); see kill1, -ing1, -ing2
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