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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
Israel believes this is its best and possibly last chance to kill off Iran's suspected nuclear weapons programme.
Moskowitz said that the "One Big Beautiful Bill" that recently passed the House would do nothing but inflate the national debt and kill off popular programs.
California’s wolves were killed off by humans about a century ago, and they only began to recolonize the state about 14 years ago.
When they killed off the characters at a last benefit night in the London Palladium 10 years later, they transformed them into Steve and Sebastian.
Horror franchises revolving around photogenic young people being stalked by a deadly murderer are hard to kill off.
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