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Definition: Killing |
KillingAdjective1. Having a debilitating effect; "a killing job in the hot sun". 2. (informal) very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics". Noun1. An event that causes someone to die. 2. The act of terminating a life. 3. (informal) a very large profit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "killing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow and failure in affairs. If you kill one in defense, or kill a ferocious beast, it denotes victory and a rise in position. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Any process which causes the death of an animal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Killing Irresistible, overpowering, fascinating, or bewitching, so as to compel admiration and notice. "Those eyes were made so killing." Pope: Rape of the Lock, v. 64. A killing pace. Too hot or strong to last; exceptionally great; exhausting. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military & Defense | An act which causes the death of a person. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Allowing the molten steel to remain in the crucible for about 45 min for the escape of the gases b. In metallurgy, esp. in foundry terminology, a term for deoxidatio. (references) |
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simple:deathDeath can refer to an event or a state. Death as a state is the opposite of life; death as an event is the opposite of birth. The event of death is the termination of life in a living system, or in part thereof, while the state is that which follows.
Biologically, death can occur to wholes, to parts of wholes, or to both. For example, it is possible for individual cellss and even organss to die, and yet for the organism as a whole to continue to live; many individual cells can live for only a short time, and so most of an organism's cells are continually dying and being replaced by new ones.
Conversely it is also possible for the organism to die and for cells and organs to live and to be used for transplantation. In the latter case, though, the still-living tissues must be removed and transplanted quickly or they too will soon die without the support of their host.
Irreversibility is often cited as a key feature of death and, indeed, scientists have not been able to watch a living organism die and later bring it back to life. Nonetheless, many people do not seem convinced that death is always and necessarily irreversible; thus some have a literal belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, while others have high hopes for the eventual prospects of Cryonics.
The biological function of death is primarily to permit the operation of evolution.
Human Death: Definitions and Significance
By far the most important sort of death to human beings is human death. Thinking about human death raises a number of questions.
First, how can we identify the exact moment at which death has occurred? This seems important, because identifying that moment would allow us to put the correct time on death certificates, make sure that the deceased's will is enacted only after the deceased is truly deceased, and in general guide us regarding when to act as one should act toward a living person and when to act as one should toward a dead person. In particular, identifying the moment of death is important in cases of organ transplant, as organs must be harvested as quickly as possible after death.
Historically, attempts to define the exact moment of death have been problematic. Death was once defined as the cessation of heartbeat and breathing, for example, but the development of CPR and early defibrillation posed a challenge: either the definition of death was incorrect, or techniques had been discovered that really allowed one to reverse death (because, in some cases, breathing and heartbeat can be restarted). Generally, the first option was chosen. (Today this definition of death is known as "clinical death".)
Today, where a definition of the moment of death is required, we usually turn to "brain death" or "biological death": people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases. It is presumed that a stoppage of electrical activity indicates the end of consciousness. Those that view that only the neo-cortex of the brain is necessary for consciousness, however, sometimes argue that only electrical activity there should be considered when defining death. In most places the more conservative definition of death (cessation of electrical activity in the whole brain, as opposed to just in the neo-cortex) has been adopted (for example the Uniform Definition of Death Act in the United States).
Even in these cases, the determination of death can be difficult. EEGs can detect spurious electrical impulses when none exists, while there have been cases in which electrical activity in a living brain has been too low for EEGs to detect. Because of this, hospitals often have elaborate protocols for determining death involving EEGs at widely separated intervals.
It might also be worthwhile to entertain the possibility that death does not occur at a particular moment, but unfolds as a process over a period of time. Perhaps, in the end, it is not terribly meaningful to speak of "the exact moment of death".
What happens to humans after death?
Second, and more interesting to many, what, if anything, happens to the human spirit, consciousness or soul when they die? Is there perhaps an afterlife? Can we expect reincarnation? These questions are of long standing. For many, believe in an afterlife is a consolation in connection with death of a beloved one or the prospect of one's own death. On the other hand, fear of hell etc. may make death worse. Human contemplation about death is an important motivation for the development of organized religion.
Many anthropologists feel that the careful burials among Neanderthals, where ornamented bodies were laid in carefully dug, flower-strewn graves, is evidence of early belief in an afterlife.
Physiological consequences of human death
For the human body, the physiological consequences of death include rigor mortis, algor mortis, livor mortis (dependent lividity) and decomposition (decay).
The deceased person is usually either cremated or deposited in a tomb, often a hole in the earth, called a grave. This happens during or after a funeral ceremony.
Graves are usually grouped together in a plot of land called a "cemetery" or a "graveyard" and are often arranged by a funeral home or undertaker.
See also:
Quote (Peter Pan): To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- brain death
- burial
- cemetery
- coffin
- coma
- cremation
- funeral
- hearse
- karoshi
- near-death experience
- persistent vegetative state
- quantum immortality
Death is also a popular mythological figure who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. The traditional image of Death is also a tarot card. See also: Death (personification) Death is also the name of a death metal band.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Death."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice.Murder is the crime of intentionally causing the death of another human being, without lawful excuse. When an illegal death was not caused intentionally, but was caused by recklessness or negligence (or there is some defense, such as diminished capacity), the crime committed is manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, which are considered to be less serious than murder. Manslaughter is often broken into two categories: involuntary manslaughter and voluntary manslaughter.
A difficult issue in defining murder is what counts as causing death. It is impossible to give a precise definition of this, but some legal principles have been developed to help. For example, many common law jurisdictions abide by the year and a day rule, which provides that one is to be held responsible for a person's death only if they die within a year and a day of the act. Thus, if you seriously injured someone, and they died from their injuries within a year and a day, you would be guilty of murder; but you would not be guilty if they died from their injuries after a year and a day had passed.
It is not murder to kill someone with lawful excuse; lawful excuses include killing enemy combatants in time of war (but not after they surrendered), killing a person who poses an immediate threat to the lives of ones self or others (i.e., in self-defence), and executing a person in accordance with a sentence of death (in those jurisdictions which use capital punishment). Sometimes extreme provocation or duress can justify killing another as well. These cases of killing are called justifiable homicide.
Under English law (and the law of other countries, such as Australia, which pay close heed to the decisions of British courts), it is murder to kill another human being for food, even if without doing so one would die of starvation. This originated in a case of three shipwrecked sailors cast adrift off the coast of South Africa in the 1920s; two of the sailors conspired to kill the other sailor, and having killed him ate his flesh to survive.
Most countries allow conditions that "affect the balance of the mind" to be regarded as mitigating circumstances against murder. This means that a person may be found guilty of "manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility" rather than murder, if it can be proved that they were suffering from a condition that affected their judgement at the time. Depression, Post-traumatic stress disorder and medication side-effects are examples of conditions that may be taken into account when assessing responsibility.
Also, some countries, such as Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom and Australia, allow post-partum depression, or 'baby-blues', as a defense against murder of a child by a mother, provided that a child is less than a year old.
Canada
Canada has about 550 murders per year, a number that is steadily decreasing. This is equivalent to numbers in most of the western world, except the U.S. which has triple the number per capita. The main methods of murder in Canada are shootings (30%), stabbings (30%), and beatings (22%).
Canada has four types of crime that can be considered murder:
For every murder in Canada there are about 1.5 attempted murders.
- first degree murder
- second degree murder
- manslaughter
- infanticide
About one in three Canadian murders are committed by a family member. One in eight is gang related. About 80% of murderers in Canada are caught within a year.
(All statistics are from the 2001 census)
The United States
In the United States, murder, or "homicide", is normally a state crime, and a murder suspect will be arrested and held by local officials and his trial will occur in a state court. Most murders are not federal crimes, in which the trial would occur in a federal court.The term First-degree murder or murder in the first degree refers to premeditated murder, or murder which occurs after some degree of reflection by the murderer. This reflection can be years or less than a second. Second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter refers to murder which occurs after "adequate provocation." Third-degree murder, also known as manslaughter, occurs without the specific intent to kill, but usually after an act of criminal negligence or some other act resulting in a person's death.
Despite the large amount of attention that the media in the United States devote to murder trials -- in news programming, movies, theater, and television dramas alike -- fewer people are murdered each year in the United States than die from suicide, from motor vehicle injuries, or from AIDS.
Felony Murder Statutes
Many jurisdictions in the United States have also adopted felony murder statutes, according to which anyone who commits a serious crime (a felony), during which a person dies, is guilty of murder. This applies even if one is not actually responsible for the person's death; for example, a driver for an armed robbery can be convicted of murder if one of the robbers killed someone in the process of the robbery, even though the driver was not (directly, at least) responsible for this person's death.
Capital Murder
Capital murder is murder which is punishable by death. 38 states in the United States, and the federal government itself, have laws allowing capital punishment for this crime. Depending on the state, a murder may qualify as "capital murder" if (a) the person murdered was of a special class, such as a police officer; (b) "special circumstances" occurred in the crime, such as multiple murder, the use of poison, or "lying in wait" in order to murder the victim. Capital murder is quite rare in the United States compared to other murder convictions, but it has generated tremendous public debate. See generally capital punishment.
Germany
In Germany the term mord (murder) is officially used for the killing of a human person
A killing which is not a murder may be either totschlag (manslaughter) or negligent killing. The penalty for mord is lifelong imprisonment (i.e. at least fifteen years), the penalty for totschlag five to fifteen years imprisonment.
- for murder desire, satisfaction of the sex impulse, greed or other low motives
- or insidiously or cruelly
- or by means dangerous to the public
- or to cover or aid another criminal offense
See also
- cannibalism
- child murder
- cult homicides
- human sacrifice
- infanticide
- list of massacres
- list of murdered people
- mass murderer
- serial killer
- spree killer
- crime fiction
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| KIR | English | Killing inhibitory receptor | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: KillingSynonyms: draining (adj), exhausting (adj), sidesplitting (adj), cleanup (n), kill (n), putting to death (n), violent death (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evening | Midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night; winter; killing time. |
Killing | Noun: killing. Verb: homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue. |
Adjective: killing. Verb: murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary, sanguinolent; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined, gory; thuggish. | |
Pain | Attractive; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing; (exciting); cheering; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, |
Success | Trump card; hit, stroke, score; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good stroke; direct hit, bull's eye; goal, point, touchdown; home run, homer, hole-in-one, grand slam; killing, windfall bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike; coup de maitre, checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit; (acquisition). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I walked all night, I walked as I had walked years before when my mind swarmed with guilt at the thought of killing. I had thought of all the things I had done, and couldn't undo (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) But killing children (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters) Oh, wake up, Norma, you'd be killing yourself to an empty house (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett) I just came here as a professional courtesy since she's in New Orleans and plans on killing one of your prominent citizens (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) And it's killing me. (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego) | |
Lyrics | And you make a big killing (Wall Street Shuffle; performing artist: 10CC) He says Bill, I believe this is killing me ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) It's so PC it's killing me (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler) You'll end up killing all the love you have inside (Pass You By; performing artist: Boyz II Men) My lonliness ain’t killing me no more (Stronger; performing artist: Britney Spears) | |
Clever | Killing time murders opportunities. (references; author: unknown) While men talk of killing time, slowly time kills men. (references; author: unknown) Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings -- they did it by killing all those who opposed them. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | K Is for Killing (1974) Once the Killing Starts (1974) The Killing Kind (1973) Hunters Are for Killing (1970) The Killing of Sister George (1968) | |
Song Titles | Killing Me Softly (performing artist: Fugees) Killing Me Softly with His Song (performing artist: Roberta Flack) | |
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 | Seen is a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy for use in an operating room. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". The patient has been given a photo sensitive drug containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy. Credit: John Crawford (photographer). |  | Shown is close up of surgeons' hands in an operating room with a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". A patient would be given a photo sensitive drug (photofrin) containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy (PDT). Credit: John Crawford (photographer). |
 | Natives driving the "holluschickie" to the killing grounds. Plate XIII, page 116. On St. Paul Island. In: "Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska." By United States Treasury Department, Special Agents Division. 1898. Volume III. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Boat fastened to whale by harpoon and line; killing the whale with bomb lance From painting by J. S. Ryder. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Ordinary attire of men on the killing ground And of women and young children in the village Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Forest stand improvement involves cutting or killing selected trees and understory vegetation to improve tree stands. Credit: Bruce Hanson. |
 | Medical Dispatch or : Doctor Doubledose Killing Two Birds With One Stone. / Rowlandson Del. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Det er ensomheten som dreper meg. [It's the loneliness that's killing me] : Omsorg smitter ikke. [You can't catch AIDS from caring]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | It's killing me but I like it. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The candy man who seducing children and killing them was arrested and was brought to the king and his crown prince / Ardeshir Mohassess. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Coffee cup contentment" by Thomas Michael Burgey, Germany Commentary: "An old shot from the early 90's used in a theater poster production about a woman killing her family with poisoned coffee." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Warfare; gunfire; gunning; killing. | | Killing; dangerous; war; warfare; army; . |
| Bullet; shoot; shot; shooting; killing; gun; warfare; weapon; hunting; hunt; kill. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Don Herold | Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer | We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. |
Shakespeare | A killing tongue, but a quiet sword. |
Siddha Nagarjuna | Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Contact | Carl Sagan | And killing is very important |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sabre of a cuirassier, striking down the pibroch and the arm which bore it, caused the strain to cease by killing the player |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It tends to remain in the bloodstream, where it is very effective in killing bacteria. (references) | |
Immunoglobulin M (IgM) is the first to respond to an invading germ. IgM antibodies tend to stay in the bloodstream, where they aid in killing bacteria. (references) | ||
Too much calcium can kill a cell, and some neuroscientists suspect that in the end, a rise in calcium levels may be precisely what is killing neurons in Alzheimer's disease. (references) | ||
Business | Police also arrested Luis Enrique Rincon Muro and Vidal Zamora Lara in the killing. (references) | |
These trials can occur under circumstances where the lack of due process protections borders on extrajudicial killing. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | India | Thirteen persons were charged in connection with Selvaraj's killing. (references) |
Bangladesh | It is not clear whether the killing was a reaction to press reporting. (references) | |
Colombia | It remains unclear to what extent, if any, the killing was related to religion. (references) | |
Economic History | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | In 1902, La Soufriere volcano erupted, killing 2,000 people. (references) |
Lebanon | Several Israeli shells struck the compound, killing 102 civilians sheltered there. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Four years later, however, he was assassinated in a revenge killing by a Kabul student. (references) | |
Human Rights | Nepal | The bomb exploded, killing three persons. (references) |
South Africa | Three officers were charged in the killing. (references) | |
South Africa | The motivation for the killing was not known. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | More than 80 percent of the victims of killing during the war were Mayan, and 93 percent of the human rights abuses were committed by the military. (references) |
Colombia | The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) attributed Secue's murder to the FARC and said the killing may have been retribution for Secue's investigations of crimes by the FARC. (references) | |
Malaysia | The trial of a group of five Iban tribesmen charged with the 1999 killing in Sarawak of four Chinese workers who worked for a company that was encroaching on their land ended in September. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Some speculated that the attack was committed in retaliation for the March 4 killing of Shi'as in Sheikhupura. (references) |
Poland | In July the President presided over a ceremony commemorating the 1941 killing of several hundred Jews in the town of Jedwabne. (references) | |
Switzerland | Four of his companions (all between 17 and 22 years of age) admitted to killing von Marcel and disposing of his corpse in Thun Lake. (references) | |
Political Economy | Greece | There was a report of an isolated police killing of a Rom. (references) |
Burkina Faso | Killing or severe beating of criminal suspects by vigilante mobs remained common. (references) | |
Indonesia | They also continued to conduct "sweeps" that led to killing of civilians and property destruction. (references) | |
Political Rights | Libya | Some committees have engaged in show trials of Government opponents; the committees also have been implicated in the killing of opponents abroad. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Through a campaign of killing and intimidation, it effectively undermined the functioning of local government bodies in Jaffna, whose members were elected in January 1998. This campaign included the killing of 2 of Jaffna's mayors and death threats against members of the 17 local councils. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | In March 1999, a passenger train en route from Nairobi to Mombasa derailed, killing 32 people, including one foreign tourist. (references) |
Women | Jordan | In July a 15-year-old boy from Irbid confessed to killing his 20-year-old sister. (references) |
Jordan | Her brother surrendered himself to police after initially fleeing the scene of the killing. (references) | |
Turkey | Because of further sentence reductions for juvenile offenders, observers note that young male relatives often are designated to perform the killing. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | An investigation continued into the June 2000 killing of Oswald Monzon Lima, the Secretary General of a fuel drivers' union. (references) |
Colombia | In some cases paramilitaries have threatened unionists with killing if they do not renounce their collective bargaining agreements and carried out those threats. (references) | |
Colombia | Prosecutors have outstanding warrants for the arrest of paramilitary members Temilda Rosa Martinez and Eduardo Manrique Morales for the 1999 killing of Julio Alfonso Poveda, a CUT founder. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I propose that we begin a massive attack on crippling and killing diseases. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Recent tensions, the restrictions on the press and political activity, an inordinate Cuban presence in the country and the tragic killing by the security forces of a businessman well known for his democratic orientation, cause us considerable concern. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | With American leadership, the killing has stopped in Bosnia. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Killing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 67.85% of the time. "Killing" is used about 2,250 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 67.85% | 1,526 | 5,356 |
| Noun (singular) | 25.62% | 576 | 10,970 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.86% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.44% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (common) | 0.22% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,250 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "killing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Tibbath | N/A | Biblical | Killing |
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Expressions using "killing": animal killing ♦ humane method of killing ♦ killing game ♦ killing one another ♦ killing range ♦ killing sidesplitting ♦ killing time ♦ killing zone ♦ make a killing ♦ mercy killing ♦ mutual killing ♦ ritual killing ♦ sex killing ♦ stretcher strains: 2. killing ♦ winter killing. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "killing": killing-bottle, killing-cauchy, killing-floor, killing-ground, killing-groups, killing-off, killing-out, killing-room, killing-time. | |
Ending with "killing": bee-killing, giant-killing, mercy-killing, pain-killing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "killing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrasje (battue, despatch, dispatch, homicide, kill, murder, sleep), vrasës (assassin, cutthroat, homicidal, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, slaughterous, slayer, suicidal), tepër për të qeshur, shkues financiar i bujshëm, shkatërrimtar (calamitous, crushing, destructive, disastrous, fatal, internecine, pestilent, pestilential, shattering, slaughterous, suicidal, vandalistic), rraskapitës (exhausting, grueling), mbytës (choker, muggy, overpowering, slaughterer, smothery, stuffy, suffocating, suffocator, sultry), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, nifty, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous), gjakësi (assassination, murder). (various references) | |
Arabic | قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), ذبح (evert, kill, massacre, murder, slain, slaughter, slay, stick), القتل (homicide), إغتيال (murdering). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съсипателен, уморителен (exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, tiresome, toilsome, wearing, weary, wearying), убито животно на лов, убиване (dispatch), убийство (assassination, homicide, kill, removal), убийствен (cutthroat, destructive, homicidal, murderous, soul-destroying, suicidal), клане (butchery, massacre, slaughter), голям неочакван успех, много смешен (riotous, ripe, sidesplitting), погубващ (ruinous), пленителен (alluring, captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating, raving, ravishing, taking), изтощителен (depletive, depletory, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, wearing). (various references) | |
Chinese | 杀害 (KILL, Killed, slain, slay). (various references) | |
Czech | zabití (kill, manslaughter), zabíjení, vyèerpávající (backbreaking, enervating, exhaustible, exhausting, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, nerve racking), vražedný (blistering, deadly, homicidal, murderous, savage), smrtelný (deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, lethal, mortal, unrelieved, unutterable), smrtící (lethal), úspìch (achievement, result, speed, success), úmorný (gruelling, overpowering, plodding, scorching). (various references) | |
Danish | aflivning. (various references) | |
Dutch | doden (kill, liquidate, slay). (various references) | |
Finnish | tappo (manslaughter), lopettaminen. (various references) | |
French | homicide. (various references) | |
German | tötung (dispatch), tötend (slaying), töten (deaden, kill, kill off, liquidate, slain, slay, to kill, zap). (various references) | |
Greek | φόνοσ (blood, kill, murder), εξαντλητικόσ (exhaustive, grueling), θανάτωση (execution), διασκεδαστικόσ (amusing, entertaining, humorous, recreative), δολοφονία (assassination, murder). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיתה (death, decease, demise, dying), המתה (mortification), ההרגות, הריגה (execution, murder, slaughter), הרגה (murder), הרג (kill, massacre, murder, slaying), טבח (butchery, carnage, cook, massacre, slaughter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyilkolás (murder), ölés (kill). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keras (crusty, hard, heady, keen, loud, rigorous, severe, strict, stringent, tang, wicked), pembunuhan (assassination, homicide, murder, slaying), hebat (excellent, fabulous, formidable, intense, severe, spectacular, super, swell, vehement). (various references) | |
Italian | uccisione (kill, murder), sterminio (extermination), omicidio (homicide, murder), mortale (deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, lethal, mortal), micidiale (deadly, fatal, internecine, lethal, murderous), massacrante (exhausting), forte guadagno, faticoso (arduous, arduously, difficult, grindingly, grueling, gruelling, hard, labored, laborious, laboured, stiff, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, uphill, wearisome), bel colpo (golden shot), attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, inviting, likable, likeable, lovely, sexy, taking, winsome), assassino (assassin, cutthroat, grueling, gruellingly, killer, murderer, murderous, slayer), assassinio (assassination, murder), abbattimento (breakdown, dejection, depressiveness, despondency, doldrums, knocking down, mope). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賊害 (destruction at the hands of rebels, harm), 殺生 (destruction of life), 殺害 (murder), 殺害 (murder). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞくがい (destruction at the hands of rebels, harm), さつがい (murder), せっしょう (destruction of life, negotiation, regency, regent). (various references) | |
Korean | 살해. (various references) | |
Manx | marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, mortified, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illingkay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | occisão, mortal (cutthroat, dead, deadly, deathlike, deathly, earth-born, fatal, fleshly, lethal, mortal, pernicious, pestilent, swashing), matança (blood, felling, kill, massacre, slaughter), irresistível (cogent, irrepressible, irresistible, overmastering, overpowering, overwhelming, rambunctious, resistless, uncontrollable, ungovernable), de morrer a rir, assassino (assassin, cutthroat, felon, goon, homicide, killer, murderer, murderous, slayer, thug), assassínio (felony, murder), ação de matar (kill). (various references) | |
Romanian | ucigãtor (baneful, cut throat, dreadful, homicidal, murderous, murderously, pestilent, terrible), ucidere (assassination, bane, crime, death, kill, slaughter), omorâtor (homicidal), mortal (deadly, deathly, fatal, fatally, lethal, mortally, to death, vital), istovitor (backbreaking, consumptive, exhausting, exhaustive, fagging, gruelling, tiresome), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), distrugãtor (blighter, destroyer, destructive, destructor, devastating, disruptive, exterminator, scathing, wrecker). (various references) | |
Russian | уморительный (screaming, sidesplitting), умопомрачительный, умерщвление (manslaughter), убийственный (damning, homicidal, murderous, suicidal), смертоносный (deadly, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, murderous, pestilent), смертельный (deadly, deathly, fatal, lethal, lethiferous, mortal), восхитительный (admirable, adorable, delectable, delicious, delightful, delightsome, duck of, entrancing, goluptious, lovely, ravishing, scrumptious), большая прибыль, потрясающий (appalling, breath-taking, corking, fab, gobsmacked, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, rattling good, shocking, startling, terrific), подрывающий силы. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji ubija, ubijanje (kill). (various references) | |
Spanish | matanza (battue, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, kill, massacre, slaughter). (various references) | |
Swedish | dödande (dispatch, fatal, kill, lethal). (various references) | |
Thai | ถึงตาย. (various references) | |
Turkish | hayvan kesme, cinayet (crime, criminal, enormity, felony, homicide, murder), avlama, av (catch, chase, fowling, Hunt, hunting, kill, pickup, prey, quarry, shikar, shoot, shooting, sporting), öldürme (destruction, dispatch, kill, manslaughter, murder, putting to death), öldürücü (baneful, deadly, deathlike, deathly, fatal, fateful, fell, homicidal, lethal, murderous, perishing, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, vital), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb), çok komik (damned funny, it's enough to make a cat lough, killingly funny, priceless, screaming, screamingly funny, sidesplitting, splitting, very funny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | убивство (homicide, murder), смерельний, кумедний (amusing, funny, laughable, priceless, side-splitting, zany), виснажливий (all out, back breaking, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, tiring, wasteful, wasting, wearisome), забій (coalface, kill, slaughter), запоморочливий (giddy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thành công bất thình lình, sự giết chóc (massacre), làm thích mê đi (killingly), làm choáng người; làm cười vỡ bụng (killingly), làm chết làm kiệt sức, giết chết. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | carnificem, occisione, occisionem, occisioni, occisionis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 12, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai palin allon apesteilen kakeinon apekteinan kai pollouV allouV touV men deronteV touV de apokteinonteV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et rursum alium misit et illum occiderunt et plures alios quosdam caedentes alios vero occidentes |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ænd eft he heom sumne sende & hyþane of-slogen. & manege oðre. sume hyobeoten. sume hyo of-slogen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And eftsoone he sente another, and thei slowen hym, and othir mo, betynge summe, and sleynge othere. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And agayne he sent another and him they kylled: and many other beetynge some and kyllinge some. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 12, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Ug unya iyang gipaadto ang lain pa, ug kini ilang gipatay; ug maingon man ang daghan pa, nga ang uban kanila ilang gibunalan ug ang uban ilang gipatay. |
| Chinese | 又 打 發 一 個 僕 人 去 ． 他 們 就 殺 了 他 。 後 又 打 發 好 些 僕 人 去 ． 有 被 他 們 打 的 、 有 被 他 們 殺 的 。 |
| Croatian | Treæega takoðer posla: njega ubiše. Tako i mnoge druge: jedne istukoše, druge pobiše." |
| Danish | Og han sendte en anden; og ham sloge de ihjel; og mange andre; nogle sloge de, og andre dræbte de. |
| Dutch | En wederom zond hij een anderen, en dien doodden zij; en vele anderen, waarvan zij sommigen sloegen, en sommigen doodden. |
| Finnish | Ja hän lähetti vielä toisen, ja sen he tappoivat; ja samoin useita muita: toisia he pieksivät, toisia tappoivat. |
| French | Il en envoya un troisième, qu`ils tuèrent; puis plusieurs autres, qu`ils battirent ou tuèrent. |
| Gaelic | `Sa rithist chuir e fear eile, `s mharbh iad e; agus moran eile: cuid dhiu sgiurs iad, ach cuid eile mharbh iad. |
| German | Abermals sandte er einen andern: den töteten sie. Und viele andere, etliche stäupten sie, etliche töteten sie. |
| Hungarian | És ismét másikat külde; ezt pedig megölék: és sok másokat; némelyeket megvervén, némelyeket pedig megölvén. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pemilik kebun itu mengirim lagi seorang pelayannya yang lain. Tetapi mereka membunuh pelayan itu. Dan begitulah seterusnya mereka memperlakukan banyak pelayan yang lain pula: ada yang dipukuli dan ada juga yang dibunuh. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lagi pula ia menyuruh orang lain, maka orang itu pun dibunuh oleh mereka itu, dan banyaklah orang lain lagi disuruhnya, maka orang-orang itu pun separuh dipukul, dan separuh dibunuh oleh mereka itu. |
| Maori | Na ka tonoa ano e ia tetahi atu; a whakamatea iho ia e ratou; me era atu, tona tini, ko etahi i whiua, ko etahi i whakamatea. |
| Norwegian | Og han sendte en annen, og ham slo de ihjel, og så gjorde de med mange andre: somme slo de, og somme drepte de. |
| Portuguese | Então enviou ainda outro, e a este mataram; e a outros muitos, dos quais a uns espancaram e a outros mataram. |
| Rumanian | A mai trimes un altul, pe care l-au omorkt; apoi a trimes mulyi alyii, dintre cari, pe unii i-au bqtut, iar pe alyii i-au omorkt. |
| Shuar | Tuma ain ataksha Chíkichan akupkamai, tura nunasha Máawarmai. Ti Untsurín akupramai. Chikichnasha katsumkarmai, chikichan Máawarmai. |
| Swahili | Mwenye shamba akatuma mtumishi mwingine tena, na huyo wakamuua. Wengine wengi waliotumwa, baadhi yao walipigwa, na wengi wakauawa. |
| Swedish | Sedan sände han åstad ännu en annan, men denne dräpte de. Likaså gjorde de med många andra: somliga misshandlade de, och andra dräpte de. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, nahubui tena hadua batua-na. Rata ria, rapatehi lau-imi. Bate hewa toe-mi kehi-ra hi butu dua batua to napahawa': ria to raweba', ria to rapatehi. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "killing": killingly, killings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "killing": outkilling, overkilling, painkilling, skilling. (additional references) | |
Words containing "killing": skillings. (additional references) | |
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"Killing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cilling, crilling, kalenji, Kallagna, kalling, kegling, kelping, kiling, killi, killin, Killough, Kivlin, kling, krilling, Kulig, Kullig, Kulungu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "killing" (pronounced ki"ling) |
| 5 | k i" l i ng | skilling. |
| 4 | -i" l i ng | billing, chilling, distilling, drilling, filling, fulfilling, grilling, hilling, instilling, milling, Pilling, quilling, rilling, Schilling, shilling, spilling, swilling, thrilling, Tilling, trilling, unwilling, willing, yearling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: liking. | |
-3 letters: gill, gink, kill, kiln, king, ling, link, nill. | |
-4 letters: gin, ilk, ill, ink, kin, lin, nil. | |
-5 letters: in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-i-k-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: killings, skilling. | |
+2 letters: killingly, skillings. | |
+3 letters: alkalising, alkalizing, nickelling, outkilling, rollicking. | |
+4 letters: alkalifying, backfilling, cockbilling, lemminglike, overkilling, painkilling. | |
+5 letters: alkalinizing, blacklisting, blackmailing, flickeringly, galligaskins, unblinkingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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