kill off

Speech parts

1. kill off - Noun

2. kill off - Verb

Meaning

kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many

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kill-off

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Examples

he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. Art Spiegelman

Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more. if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle. Curtis LeMay

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease. Larry Niven

It would be one way to kill off the merchandising. J. K. Rowling

It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen. Marc Guggenheim

In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along-there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, 'independent' regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections. Ilana Mercer

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