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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
That goal came seven seconds after the Kings killed off a tripping penalty to Drew Doughty.
He left the soap again in 2014 and was later killed off without making another appearance on screen.
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.
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