单词 | killer whale |
释义 | kill1 /kil/transitive verb
To commit murder or manslaughter noun
ORIGIN: ME killen or cullen killˈer noun
Spectacularly impressive, stupendous killˈing adjective
killˈingly adverb kill-courtˈesy noun (Shakespeare) A discourteous person killˈcow noun (obsolete) A bully, a swaggerer killer cell noun (immunology) A lymphocyte that destroys certain tumour cells without evident antigen specificity killer whale noun
killing field noun A scene of large-scale killing, esp in war killing time noun (Scot hist) The days of the persecution of the Covenanters in the 17c killˈjoy noun A spoilsport adjective Austere, disapproving kill line noun (mining) One of the small-bore pipelines, connected through the blow-out preventer stack, that allow denser mud to be pumped into a borehole which has to be shut down because of the danger of a blow-out kill string see injection string under inject dressed to kill Dressed so as to dazzle, attract and impress others in at the kill (figurative) Present at the culminating moment kill by inches To kill gradually, eg by torture kill off
kill the fatted calf See under calf1 kill time To occupy oneself with amusements, etc, in order to pass spare time or to relieve boredom (also killˈ-time noun an occupation of this sort) kill two birds with one stone see under bird kill up (Shakespeare) To exterminate make a killing (informal) To make a lot of money, a large profit |
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