as in to blot out
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Recent Examples of kill off
This last-minute casting shift delighted Williamson, who’d been influenced by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, in which Janet Leigh — introduced as the ostensible star of the film — is killed off early on.
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Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Speaking of biodiversity, the Biden administration has approved a massive lithium and boron mine in Nevada despite concerns from some environmentalists that the project could kill off an endangered wildflower, according to the Washington Post.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Otherwise, lady beetles and ladybugs can actually help out your garden by eating up aphids, the small and sap-sucking insects that can kill off plants.
—Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
Leitch and Stahelski also said they weren’t allowed to kill off Wick’s dog.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024
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Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Speaking of biodiversity, the Biden administration has approved a massive lithium and boron mine in Nevada despite concerns from some environmentalists that the project could kill off an endangered wildflower, according to the Washington Post.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
Otherwise, lady beetles and ladybugs can actually help out your garden by eating up aphids, the small and sap-sucking insects that can kill off plants.
—Maia Pandey, Journal Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2024
Leitch and Stahelski also said they weren’t allowed to kill off Wick’s dog.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kill off
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For a few precious minutes during a solar eclipse, the Moon blots out the disk of the Sun, revealing its wispy outer atmosphere, or corona.ByHannah Richter, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
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Big enough to credibly watch The Good Place, small enough to talk on without blotting out the sun.David Pierce, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2017
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Permits for cutting down Christmas trees in national forests, a Thanksgiving weekend tradition for many Colorado families, are now on sale.John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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The Clippers responded by cutting down its mistakes, not turning over the ball and making the right play, enabling them to build a substantial lead in the second half.Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
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This is left somewhat ambiguous, but it is implied that Agatha is buying time for Nick by slaughtering covens of witches as an offering to Death.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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In April of 1983, Hezbollah assaulted the U.S. Embassy in Beirut with a suicide truck bomb that slaughtered 63 people, including 17 Americans.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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But on the eastern side, they’re getting massacred by Ukrainian troops firing from fortifications the Ukrainians apparently captured from the Russians back in August.David Axe, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The episode presented stunning spectacle, while saving its true horrors for the quake’s aftermath, when Japanese vigilantes began massacring Koreans.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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Year-end is when most of them make like an autumn squirrel and choose how much of next year’s pay to put away for the future.Bruce Brumberg, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Popular on Variety All that’s left is to put away the phone and enjoy the experience.Meredith Ogilvie-Thompson, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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To win such a war, Israel would have had to focus on taking out Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Gunmen from the Manfredi and Bevilaqua outfits, led by weed store employee and unlikely sharpshooter Grace, take out the rest of the Triads.Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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The reason is clear: most Americans understand that Israel is fighting for its very survival against terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, whose explicit mission is to annihilate Israel.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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This movie is about an oceanside town in Maryland that gets annihilated by huge lice that started by taking out marine life and have now found their way into humans.Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2024
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The camera follows the dog into a retro tiled bathroom, where Elizabeth Berkley is sitting in a shell-pink bathtub wearing a matching silk robe cutting grotesque black bumps off of her leg.Katie Rife, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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So, when people describe the Fed as driving a car through a tunnel with a windshield painted black, guiding itself with the rearview mirrors, oil demand forecasting is more like feeling your way bumping off the walls.Michael Lynch, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Kill off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kill%20off. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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