英语词汇“kill line”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

kill line

释义

kill¹ /kil/

transitive verb

To put to death, to murder or execute
To deprive of life
To destroy
To nullify or neutralize, to make inactive, to weaken or dilute
To reject, discard, defeat
To overwhelm with amazement, admiration, laughter, etc (informal)
To injure seriously (Irish)
To spoil
To muffle or still
To extinguish (a light, etc) (informal)
To stop the flow of oil in (a well) by pumping in mud or other liquid (oil)
To cause to stop, to turn off (machinery, etc)
To exhaust, to overexert (informal)
To cause severe pain to (informal)
To consume completely (informal)
To mark for cancellation, to cut (printing)
To cancel or suppress (a story) (press)
To bring (a loose ball) under control (football, etc)
To play (a shot) so hard that one's opponent cannot play it back again (tennis, etc)

intransitive verb

To commit murder or manslaughter

noun

An act or instance of killing, etc
Prey or game killed
An act or instance of destroying an enemy plane, tank, etc
The plane, tank, etc so destroyed
A shot impossible to return (tennis, etc)

ORIGIN: ME killen or cullen

killˈer noun

A person, creature, organism, chemical, etc that kills
Someone who murders readily or habitually
An instrument for killing
A neutralizing agent
An animal intended for slaughter (Aust and NZ informal)
A gruelling task or activity (informal)

adjective (slang)

Spectacularly impressive, stupendous

killˈing adjective

Depriving of life
Destructive
Deadly, irresistible
Exhausting
Fascinating
Irresistibly funny (informal)

noun

The act of causing death, slaughter
A large financial gain, esp sudden (informal)
A severe handling

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

A ferocious black-and-white toothed marine whale
The grampus

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

To exterminate
(of an author, etc) to write in the death of (a fictional character)

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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