verb

• (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  "Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined."
• (transitive) To render inoperative.
  "He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting."
• (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  "The editor decided to kill the story."
• (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  "That night, she was dressed to kill."

noun

• (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
  "confirmed kills"
• (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  "As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba."

noun

• (New York) A creek; a body of water; 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

• (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
  "This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes, dishes."