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killing

adj
/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill + -ing.

  1. inherited from kyllyng

Definitions

  1. That literally deprives of life

    That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.

  2. Devastatingly attractive.

    • He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]

  3. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter

    That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.

    • Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The act of killing.

      • In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing.

    2. An instance of someone being killed.

      • The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.
      • A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.

    3. A large amount of money.

      • He made a killing on the stock market.

    4. present participle and gerund of kill

    5. A surname.

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Derived

killingly, killingness, antikilling, contract killing, counterkilling, honour killing, honor killing, killing bottle, killing frost, killing jar, killingry, ladykilling, make a killing, nonkilling, painkilling, photokilling, self-killing, semikilling, targeted killing, Terms derived from killing, thrill killing, time-killing, weedkilling

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at killing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at killing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at killing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA