kill
I
(defeat) verb
abolish, abrogate, annul, arrest, beat, block, cancel, check, conficere, counteract, crush, destroy, devitalize, dispatch, extinguish, interficere, invalidate, nullify, overthrow, overturn, prevail over, put down, quash, quell, repress, repulse, revoke, squash, stop, surmount, thwart, triumph, trucidare, upset, vanquish
associated concepts: kill a legislative bill
II
(murder) verb
assassinate, conficere, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, execute, exterminate, injure fatally, interficere, liquidate, massacre, occidere, put to death, slaughter, slay, smite
associated concepts: deliberate killing, intent to kill, justifiable killing, malicious killing, premeditated killing
III
index
destroy (efface), dispatch (put to death), eliminate (eradicate), execute (sentence to death), extinguish, prey, remove (eliminate), repress, slay, stifle
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006