kill off
See also: killoff and kill-off
English
Etymology
kill + off
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɪl ɒf/
- (US) IPA(key): /kɪl ɔf/, /kɪl ɑf/
Verb
kill off (third-person singular simple present kills off, present participle killing off, simple past and past participle killed off)
- To eliminate, or make extinct.
- We killed off the Dodo by over-hunting.
- (of writers or producers) To take a character out of a television series by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.
- (figuratively) To put an end to.
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
- Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
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