kill off
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Verb [edit]
- To eliminate, or make extinct
- We killed off the Dodo by over-hunting.
- The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.
- To put an end to.
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, BBC Sport:
- Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
- 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, BBC Sport:
