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kill off
Render extinct, eliminate completely, as in The plague killed off entire villages and towns . [c. 1600]
Represent as dead, as in This mystery writer kills off a new victim in almost every chapter . [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
But when exactly did you find out that Chelsea was going to be killed off?
The mixture known as Agent Orange is a combination of two herbicides that the U.S. brought to Vietnam in huge volumes to kill off jungles and mangroves that hid opposition forces during the Vietnam war.
When they described it as a genocide, they were alluding to what they couldn’t help suspect was a concerted government policy to kill off drug users and the poor.
That conference, among other things, turned the Congo over to Belgium’s King Leopold II, who soon killed off half its population to extract its latex rubber, the “black gold†of that day.
The easiest way to kill off the tardigrades, the researchers argue, would be to sterilize the entire planet, adding 5.6 × 1026 J of energy to make the oceans boil off.
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