Synonyms for killing
ˈkɪl ɪŋkilling

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1. killing, violent deathnoun

   an event that causes someone to die

   Synonyms:
   putting to death, kill, violent death, cleanup

   Antonyms:
   unhumorous, humourless, humorless

2. killing, kill, putting to deathnoun

   the act of terminating a life

   Synonyms:
   putting to death, kill, violent death, cleanup

   Antonyms:
   humourless, humorless, unhumorous

3. killing, cleanupadjective

   a very large profit

   Synonyms:
   cleansing, cleanup, cleaning, putting to death, cleanup spot, kill, cleanup position, violent death

   Antonyms:
   unhumorous, humourless, humorless

4. killing, sidesplittingadjective

   very funny

   "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"

   Synonyms:
   sidesplitting

   Antonyms:
   humourless, humorless, unhumorous

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1. killingadjective

   Synonyms:
   fatal, mortal, deadly, destructive, captivating, charming, fascinating

2. killingnoun

   Synonyms:
   slaying, slaughter, butchering, butchery, assassination, massacre, strangulation, immolation, holocaust, execution, fusillade, carnage, murder, manslaughter, chaud-medley, lynching, guillotine, burkism, garrote, chance-medley, decimation, assideration, destruction, blasting, counteraction, neutralization

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1. List of paraphrases for "killing":

   murder, killed, kill, assassination, massacre, murdering, death, killings, slaughter, homicide, murders, kills, dead, carnage, manslaughter, deaths, shoot

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How to use killing in a sentence?

1. Joe Biden:

   There is no reason for a person to own a military assault weapon. It has no value for hunting, or sports or even self-defense, it is a killing machine.

2. Pope Francis:

   Abortion is not a lesser evil. It is a crime. It is killing one person to save another. It is what the Mafia does, it is a crime. It is an absolute evil.

3. Raymond Lopez:

   The carnage continues in our beloved city as yet another mass shooting occurs in the streets of Lightfoot’s Chicago, she has no plan to keep Chicagoans safe, arrogantly refusing to consider alternatives after her policies continue to fail our residents. Her politics and pride are killing Chicagoans.

4. Douglas Higgs:

   A major question hanging over this approach, which is hugely expensive, is whether this procedure, which involves killing off abnormal stem cells to replace them with modified stem cells, will ever become clinically possible in developing countries where the majority of these disorders of hemoglobin occur.

5. Helen Prejean:

   You are freeze-framed in an act. And the state is freeze-framed in killing.