kill vs off

kill

verb
  • To deadmelt. 

  • To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point. 

  • To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt. 

  • To punish severely. 

  • To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay. 

  • To produce intense pain. 

  • To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate. 

  • To put to death; to extinguish the life of. 

  • To exert oneself to an excessive degree. 

  • To exert an overwhelming effect on. 

  • To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate. 

  • To force a company out of business. 

  • To render inoperative. 

  • To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy. 

  • To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. 

  • To use up or to waste. 

  • To cause to assume the value zero. 

  • To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network. 

  • To sexually penetrate in a skillful way. 

  • To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat. 

noun
  • The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally. 

  • Specifically, the death blow. 

  • A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea. 

  • The act of killing. 

  • The result of killing; that which has been killed. 

off

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To switch off. 

adj
  • Inoperative, disabled. 

  • On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left). 

  • Inappropriate; untoward. 

  • Circumstanced. 

  • Cancelled; not happening. 

  • Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent. 

  • Presently unavailable. 

  • Started on the way. 

  • Rancid, rotten, gone bad. 

  • Less than normal, in temperament or in result. 

  • The off front wheel came loose. 

  • Not fitted; not being worn. 

  • Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities. 

  • In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • Far; off to the side. 

  • Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. 

adv
  • Offstage. 

  • Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase. 

  • Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. 

  • So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated. 

  • In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. 

prep
  • Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering. 

  • Removed or subtracted from. 

  • Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via. 

  • Out of the possession of. 

  • Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to. 

  • Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland. 

  • No longer wanting or taking. 

  • Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon. 

noun
  • Beginning; starting point. 

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