deprive+of+life

  • 71Drown — Drown, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. They drown the land. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. [1913 Webster] 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said especially… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 72To drown up — Drown Drown, v. t. 1. To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. They drown the land. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid. [1913 Webster] 3. To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; said… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 73devitalize — transitive verb Date: 1849 to deprive of life, vigor, or effectiveness • devitalization noun …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 74exanimate — adjective Etymology: Latin exanimatus, past participle of exanimare to deprive of life or spirit, from ex + anima breath, soul more at animate Date: circa 1534 1. lacking animation ; spiritless 2. being or appearing lifeless …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 75drown — verb /draʊn/ a) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish by such suffocation. The CIA gathers so much information that the actual answers it should seek are often drowned in the incessant flood of reports, recordings, satellite images… …

    Wiktionary

  • 76kill — I (defeat) verb abolish, abrogate, annul, arrest, beat, block, cancel, check, conficere, counteract, crush, destroy, devitalize, dispatch, extinguish, interficere, invalidate, nullify, overthrow, overturn, prevail over, put down, quash, quell,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 77belífian — wv/t2 to deprive of life …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 78kill — [13] The Old English verbs for ‘kill’ were slēan, source of modern English slay, and cwellan, which has become modern English quell. The latter came from a prehistoric Germanic *kwaljan, which it has been suggested may have had a variant *kuljan… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 79kill — {{11}}kill (n.1) early 13c., a stroke, a blow, from KILL (Cf. kill) (v.). Meaning act of killing is from 1814; that of a killed animal is from 1878. Lawn tennis serve sense is from 1903. The kill the knockout is boxing jargon, 1950. {{12}}kill (n …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 80kill — v. a. Slay, slaughter, murder, despatch, carry off, put to death, deprive of life, make away with, give one his quietus, give a death blow to. See assassinate …

    New dictionary of synonyms