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Synonyms for kill

Synonyms for kill: defeat and obliterate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · verb · 2 reason lines

The 2 synonyms for kill

defeatverb, in the sense "thwart the passage of"
obliterateverb, in the sense "mark for deletion, rub off, or erase"

Each of these belongs to a different sense of kill, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.

Sense 1 of 2verbTier 1, FoothillsSocial life

thwart the passage of

Kill a motion.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

defeat

Same sentence, swapped: Defeat a motion.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for kill in the sentence quoted.

down
obliterate
run

Sense 2 of 2verbTier 3, RidgelineChange

mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

Kill these lines in the President's speech.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

obliterate

Same sentence, swapped: Obliterate these lines in the President's speech.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot kill is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

down
defeat
mark

Where kill turns up in the game

kill is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play kill

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so kill reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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