killing
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
killing/ˈkɪlɪŋ/
▶noun an act of causing death. ▶adjective
- 1 [in combination] causing the death of a specified thing: weed-killing.
- 2 informal overwhelming or unbearable.
– phrases
make a killing have a great financial success.
make a killing have a great financial success.
– derivatives
killingly adverb.
killingly adverb.
'killing' also found in these Oxford entries:
account
- angel
- bag
- bloodless
- bloodshed
- blood sport
- bounty
- bullfighting
- capital punishment
- carnage
- chance-medley
- chop
- -cide
- close season
- cull
- deicide
- ethnic cleansing
- euthanasia
- filicide
- fratricide
- genocide
- giant-killer
- homicide
- incapacitant
- infanticide
- insecticide
- justifiable homicide
- kill
- killing field
- malice aforethought
- maneater
- manslaughter
- matricide
- mercy killing
- murder
- open season
- parasuicide
- parricide
- patricide
- penalty killer
- regicide
- roadkill
- sacrifice
- siblicide
- slaughter
- spare
- suicide
- tyrannicide
- uxoricide
