“killest” is a form of
kill
/ˈkɪl/ verb, noun, proper noun
Also a form of kiln
Forms kills killing killed killest killedst killeth k1ll 'kill
- verb (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of. “Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.”
- verb (transitive) To render inoperative. “He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.”
- verb (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate. “The editor decided to kill the story.”
- verb (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate. “That night, she was dressed to kill.”
- verb (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt. “These tight shoes are killing my feet.”
- verb (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in. “It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.”
- verb (transitive) To use up or to waste. “I'm just doing this to kill time.”
- verb (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat. “Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate.”
- noun The act of killing. “The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.”
- noun Specifically, the death blow. “The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.”
- noun The result of killing; that which has been killed. “The fox dragged its kill back to its den.”
- noun (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed. “confirmed kills”
- noun (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- noun (archaic or regional, largely fossilized in place names) A creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea. “The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.”
- noun (preceded by the) In particular, a waterway with a name ending in kill, such as the Beaverkill or the East Kill. “We're gonna go flyfishing over in the kill.”
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
assassinate bump off dispatch drill ice knock off liquidate murder murk rub out slaughter slay smoke top whack claim account for break deactivate disable killing putting to death shoot down defeat vote down vote out stamp out toss off pop bolt down
Antonyms
save rescue resurrect revive raise reanimate reawaken requicken revivify raise from the dead vitalise vivificate
Etymology
From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).
Borrowing from Dutch kil (formerly spelled kill), from Middle Dutch kille, from Old Dutch *killa, from Proto-West Germanic *killjā, from Proto-Germanic *kiljǭ (“fissure, slit; a type of stream, creek, channel”). Doublet of Kiel.
Most place names with kill were derived entirely in Dutch, but many have been subsequently calqued into English or anglicized by folk etymology; for example, Motherkill and Murderkill both likely derive from Dutch *Modderkil (“Mud Creek”) (better preserved in Mudder Kill and Muddy Kill), originally having nothing to do with mothership or murder.
* As a German and Dutch surname, probably shortened from Kilian.
* Also as a German surname, from Kyll in the Eifel mountains, from Latin Celbis.
* As a Jewish surname, probably from Yiddish קיל (kil, “cool”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A kiln. [Obs.] Fuller.
- noun A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; --used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.
- verb To deprive of life, animal or vegetable, in any manner or by any means; to render inanimate; to put to death; to slay.
- verb To destroy; to ruin; as, to kill one's chances; to kill the sale of a book. "To kill thine honor." Shak.
Etymology [D. kil.]
Etymology [OE. killen, kellen, cullen, to kill, strike; perh. the same word as cwellen, quellen, to kill (cf. Quell), or perh. rather akin to Icel. kolla to hit in the head, harm, kollr top, summit, head, Sw. kulle, D. kollen to kill with the ax.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “kill”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details