English-Thai Dictionary

killing

ADJ ถึงตาย  fatal mortal lethal tuang-tai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

KILLING

ppr. Depriving of life; quelling.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

KILLING

KILLING Kill "ing, a.

 

Defn: Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible. -- Kill "ing *ly, adv. Those eyes are made so killing. Pope. Nothing could be more killingly spoken. Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

killing

kill ing |ˈkiliNG ˈkɪlɪŋ | ▶noun an act of causing death, esp. deliberately. ▶adjective causing death: [ in combination ] : weed-killing. • informal exhausting; unbearable: the suspense will be killing. • dated overwhelmingly funny. PHRASES make a killing have a great financial success: they're a safe investment, you can make a killing overnight. DERIVATIVES kill ing ly adverb

 

killing field

kill ing field ▶noun (usu. killing fields ) a place where a heavy loss of life has occurred, typically as the result of massacre or genocide during a time of warfare or violent civil unrest.

 

Oxford Dictionary

killing

kill |ing |ˈkɪlɪŋ | ▶noun an act of causing death, especially deliberately. ▶adjective 1 causing death: a killing disease. 2 informal exhausting or unbearable: a killing schedule. • dated extremely funny. PHRASES make a killing informal have a great financial success. DERIVATIVES killingly adverb

 

killing field

kill |ing field ▶noun (usu. killing fields ) a place where a heavy loss of life has occurred, typically as the result of massacre or genocide.

 

killing zone

killing zone (also kill zone ) ▶noun 1 the area of a military engagement with a high concentration of fatalities. 2 an area of the human body where entry of a projectile would cause death, especially as indicated on a target for shooting practice.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

killing

killing noun a brutal killing: murder, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, elimination, putting to death, execution; slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage, bloodshed, extermination, annihilation; literary slaying. ▶adjective 1 a killing blow: deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, death-dealing; murderous, homicidal; literary deathly. 2 informal a killing schedule: exhausting, grueling, punishing, taxing, draining, wearing, prostrating, crushing, tiring, fatiguing, debilitating, enervating, arduous, tough, demanding, onerous, strenuous, rigorous; informal murderous. PHRASES make a killing informal Tess made a killing in real estate: make a large profit, make a /one's fortune, make money, rake it in, clean up, cash in, make a pretty penny, make big bucks.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

killing

killing noun the community was shocked by the brutal killing: murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, putting /doing to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom; slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage, bloodshed, destruction, decimation, extermination, eradication, annihilation, wiping out, extinction; patricide, matricide, parricide, infanticide, filicide; literary slaying. PHRASES make a killing informal investors are set to make a killing in the sell-off: make a large profit, make a /one's fortune, gain, profit, make money, be successful, be lucky; informal clean up, strike it rich, rake it in, make a /one's pile, make a packet, make a bundle, make a pretty penny; Brit. informal make a bomb; N. Amer. informal make big bucks. ▶adjective 1 a killing blow: deadly, lethal, fatal, mortal, death-dealing, causing death, life-threatening, final, destructive, dangerous; murderous, homicidal; literary deathly. 2 informal the Minister has a killing schedule: exhausting, gruelling, punishing, taxing, draining, wearing, prostrating, sapping, crushing, tiring, fatiguing, debilitating, enervating, arduous, tough, demanding, onerous, strenuous, rigorous, relentless, unsparing, grinding, formidable; informal murderous, back-breaking; Brit. informal knackering. 3 informal the suspense will be killing: unbearable, intolerable, unendurable, not to be borne, more than one can bear, more than flesh and blood can stand, insupportable, impossible; cruel, heartbreaking, painful, excruciating, agonizing, grievous. 4 informal, dated ‘I think he's absolutely killing, ’ said Muriel: hilarious, hysterically funny, outrageously funny, too funny for words, uproarious, riotous, comic, comical, chucklesome, amusing, laughable, absurd, ludicrous, outrageous; informal priceless, side-splitting, a scream, a hoot, rib-tickling, killingly funny, screamingly funny.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

killing

kill ing /kɪ́lɪŋ /→kill 名詞 複 ～s /-z /1 C 殺人, 殺害 (murder ); 屠殺 （とさつ ）▸ mass [serial ] killings 大量 [連続 ]殺人 2 U 〖集合的に 〗狩りで仕留めた獲物 .m à ke a k í lling ｟くだけて ｠ «…で » (短期間で容易に )大もうけをする, がっぽり稼ぐ «in , on , from » .形容詞 1 ｟くだけて ｠ひどく骨の折れる, へとへとになるほどの .2 ｟くだけて やや古 ｠とてもおもしろい, 抱腹絶倒の .3 殺人 [害 ]の ; 致命 [死 ]的な ;〖複合語で 〗…を殺す, 枯らす ▸ a killing spree 無差別殺人 ▸ pain- killing drugs 鎮痛薬 ～ly 副詞 ものすごく ; 死ぬほど .