28 Verbs to Use for the Word kill

"No man makes my kill."

How to tell the kill of a tiger.

Muskwa was just finishing his first real kill when a second spout of water shot upward and another trout pirouetted shoreward through the air.

Looking down we saw the kill, close to the edge of the water.

The kid covers a kill.

If, however, you find traces three times in the first hour, or see the blood pouring from the trunknot merely blown in spray upon the bushesthen the certain conviction comes that within an hour you will find your kill.

"Personally," said Nap, "I enjoy a kill.

"Warn your soldiers against firing at random as the Spaniards did, if possible have them calculate the number of their antagonists and how much ammunition there is in comparison with the number of the attacking force, in fact, there are occasions when each shot fired kills as many as four men.

If a nigger gits a' office, er de race 'pears ter be prosperin' too much, de w'ite folks up an' kills a few, so dat de res' kin keep on fergivin' an' bein' thankful dat dey're lef alive.

I felt bigger than Napoleon ever did as I gathered up my kill and started for home.

Some, while their brothers harried the kill, had lain to one side and rested.

I love the hunt, but I hate the kill.

"W'en de scuppernon' season 'uz ober fer dat year, Mars Dugal' foun' he had made fifteen hund'ed gallon er wine; en one er de niggers hearn him laffin' wid de oberseah fit ter kill, en sayin'

" I laughed in glee at the prospect of turning the tables on the bloodthirsty wretches, but very shortly came the thought that the unfortunate prisoners would be in as much danger as the savages, and this I suggested to the corporal, whereupon he said, gravely: "We'll hope the first shot kills as many as are trussed up to the stakes, lad, because a quick death is the only favor we can do for the poor fellows.

And Ba-ree found the moon, and left his kill.

"The mind's affections patience will appease, It passions kills, and healeth each disease.

The coyote is not a scavenger by choice, preferring his own kill, but being on the whole a lazy dog, is apt to fall into carrion eating because it is easier.

The Admiralty accept no guesswork from the hunters about their exploits; they must bring the brush to prove the kill.

Peter Carder, an Englishman captive among the Brazilians, wrote: "This is to be noted, that how many men these savages doe kill, so many holes they will have in their visage, beginning first in the nether lippe, then in the cheekes, thirdly, in both their eye-browes, and lastly in their eares.

Two main antidotes, Hemmingius observes, opposite to despair, good hope out of God's word, to be embraced; perverse security and presumption from the devil's treachery, to be rejected; Illa solus animae, haec pestis; one saves, the other kills, occidit animam, saith Austin, and doth as much harm as despair itself, Navarrus the casuist reckons up ten special cures out of Anton.

The smell of blood was in the air, and the old he-wolf, that had so often shared his kill to save the cubs, was now going crazy in his awful hunger.

It is useless to point to passages like this (again from Burton): "Polienus, when his mistress Circe did but frown upon him, in Petronius, drew his sword, and bade her kill, stab, or whip him to death, he would strip himself naked and not resist.

"When he first bar'd his heart before thy view, Told all its inmost beatingstold them true; Nay, e'en the pulse, the secret, trembling thrill, On which the slightest touch alone would trill [Errata: kill]; While thou, with secret aim, collected art, Didst wind around that bold, confiding heart,

Draw neare a while, and whilst vpon the plaines Your flocks do gently feed, lets see your skill How you with chaunting can sad sorrow kill.

Round turrets and gables the wind raved and moaned like a famished wild thing denied its kill.

28 Verbs to Use for the Word  kill