killing

killing
n
1. murder, slaying, manslaughter, thug- gee, fatality, death, violent death, bloody or foul murder, murder most foul, foul play, assassination, shooting, strangling, strangulation, garrotting, poisoning; execution, capital punishment, judicial murder; hanging, lynching, Euph. necktie party; decapitation, decollation, guillotining; electrocution, gassing; martyrdom, immolation, crucifixion, impalement, lapida-tion, stoning, burning, burning at the stake; homicide, suicide, patricide, matricide, parricide, fratricide, sororicide, uxoricide, infanticide, regicide, vaticide; aborticide, insecticide, fungicide, germicide.
2. butchery, massacre, carnage, slaughter, bloodbath, bloodshed, fusillade of blood, effusion of blood, Rare. trucidation, Rare. internecion, wholesale or general slaughter; mass murder, mass slaying, mass homicide, mass execution, mass destruction, decimation, liquidation, blotting or wiping out, genocide, pogrom, holocaust, Euph., Hist.Final Solution, extermination, obliteration, organized murder, elimination.
3. coup, stroke of luck or fortune, piece of good luck or good fortune, Inf. smash or big hit, hit, fluke, run of luck, godsend, windfall, bonanza; master stroke, stroke of genuis, Fr. coup de maitre. feat, achievement; Inf. cleanup, harvest, fortune, profit, take, takings, winnings, booty, prize, gain.
adj
4. murderous, homicidal, cutthroat, assassinative; death-dealing, lethal, fatal, mortal, mor-tiferous, deadly, deathly, Archaic. lethiferous; slaughterous, internecine, savage, barbarous, cruel, brutal, fiendish; cannibalistic, anthropophagous, bloodthirsty, bloody-minded, sanguinary, sanguine, sanguineous, sanguinolent, bloody, gory, bloodstained, ensanguined; ferocious, violent, frenzied, wild, berserk, amuck, raging, maniacal; annihilating, exterminating, obliterating, extirpative, extirpating, extinguishing, eliminating, withering, devastating, decimating, destructive, destroying.
5. exhausting, debilitating, enervating, prostrating, overtiring, overtaxing, overtasking, overburdening; taxing, straining, hard, difficult, laborious, arduous; tiring, fatiguing, wearying, weakening, sapping, draining.
6.Informal. screaming, hilarious, uproarious, screamingly funny, highly amusing, too funny for words; funny, comic, comical, amusing, quizzical; ludicrous, ridiculous, absurd, nonsensical, outrageous, outlandish, foolish, laughable, risible, farcical; droll, drollish, rich.

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