kill off

verb

killed off; killing off; kills off

transitive verb

: to destroy in large numbers or totally

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Barber’s beloved character was famously killed off in Young Sheldon’s third-to-last episode. Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Jan. 2025 Bird flu, and efforts to prevent its spread, have killed off around 10 percent of the country’s egg-laying chickens in the past few months. Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025 The disclosure requirements should also kill off the easy promotion of 831(b) captives as tax shelters. Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025 Then Carrie Monahan, who worked as a fact-checker at Facebook, has some thoughts about Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to kill off fact-checking at Meta. airmail.news, 11 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for kill off 

Word History

First Known Use

1607, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of kill off was in 1607

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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kill%20off. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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