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killing

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English kyllyng; equivalent to kill +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ

Adjective

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killing (comparative more killing, superlative most killing)

  1. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
  2. (dated, idiomatic) Devastatingly attractive.
    • 1756, Edward Ward, A Compleat and Humorous Account of All the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, page 134:
      Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]
  3. (informal, idiomatic) That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 471:
      Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.

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Noun

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killing (countable and uncountable, plural killings)

  1. An instance of someone being killed.
    • 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:
      The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.
    • 2013 April 24, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Hai Nan, Luisetta Mudie, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “Xinjiang Violence Leaves 21 Dead”, in Dolkun Kamberi, Luisetta Mudie, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia‎[2]:
      A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.
    • 2020 May 30, Peter Baker, “Trump Hopes for His Own Booster Shot From SpaceX Rocket Launch”, in The New York Times‎[3], retrieved May 30, 2020:
      But the split-screen nature of this moment in his presidency was underscored when Mr. Trump devoted the first nine minutes of his speech to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the subsequent protests and riots unfolding in cities across the country.
    • 2025 January 1, Reuters, “Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people”, in CNN‎[4]:
      A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.
  2. (informal, usually as make a killing) A large amount of money.
    He made a killing on the stock market.
    • 1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎[5]:
      The result is, in the end, the superintendent agrees to hold up another race, and the victim arranges to obtain all the money he can get in order to bet it on a sure thing. When the great "killing" is made, and the stripped victim goes back to consult with the superintendent […]

Verb

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killing

  1. present participle and gerund of kill

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ketlingr, diminutive form of ketta (“cat”). Cognate with Swedish källing.

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Noun

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killing c (singular definite killingen, plural indefinite killinger)

  1. kitten (young cat)
  2. leveret (young hare)

Declension

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Declension of killing
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative killing killingen killinger killingerne
genitive killings killingens killingers killingernes

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse kiðlingr.

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Noun

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killing m (definite singular killingen, indefinite plural killinger, definite plural killingene)

  1. a goatling

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse kiðlingr.

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killing m (definite singular killingen, indefinite plural killingar, definite plural killingane)

  1. a goatling

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish kiþlinger, from Old Norse kiðlingr, corresponding to kid (now fawn, before all baby animals) +‎ -ling (diminutive suffix).

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Noun

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killing c

  1. a kid (young goat)

Declension

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Declension of killing
nominative genitive
singular indefinite killing killings
definite killingen killingens
plural indefinite killingar killingars
definite killingarna killingarnas

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