kills off

The phrase “kills off” has 2 syllables: kills off

It's pronounced as /kɪlz ɔf/


What is synonym and antonym for kills off?

In the thesaurus, “kills off” has 42 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for kills off along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for kills off

  • annihilates
  • assassinates
  • blots out
  • bumps off
  • butchers
  • carries off
  • claims
  • croaks
  • cuts down
  • decimates
  • destroys
  • dispatches
  • does in
  • euthanatizes
  • euthanizes
  • executes
  • fells
  • finishes
  • gets
  • ices
  • kills
  • knocks off
  • martyrs
  • massacres
  • mows
  • murders
  • neutralizes
  • offs
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • rubs out
  • scrags
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • smites
  • snuffs
  • suicides
  • takes
  • takes out
  • terminates
  • wastes
  • whacks

Antonyms for kills off

  • animates
  • nurtures
  • raises
  • restores
  • resurrects
  • resuscitates
  • revives

Example Sentences

  • The harsh winter kills off most of the weaker plants in the garden.
  • The company often kills off old software features to make room for new ones.
  • That twist in the movie kills off the main character unexpectedly.
  • Pollution kills off marine life in contaminated areas.
  • Regular maintenance prevents rust, which kills off the lifespan of machines.

On this page you'll find 49 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to kills off, such as: animates, annihilates, assassinates, blots out, bumps off, butchers, carries off.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abolishes

  • abates
  • aborts
  • abrogates
  • annihilates
  • annuls
  • atomizes
  • avoids
  • bans
  • blacks out
  • blasts
  • blots out
  • blows up
  • breaks down
  • calls
  • calls off
  • cancels
  • consumes
  • countermands
  • cuts
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  • decimates
  • demolishes
  • destroys
  • devastates
  • devours
  • disallows
  • disannuls
  • discards
  • dismantles
  • dismisses
  • dissolves
  • ditches
  • does away with
  • dooms
  • drops
  • dynamites
  • effaces
  • ejects
  • eliminates
  • enjoins
  • eradicates
  • erases
  • excises
  • expels
  • expunges
  • exterminates
  • extirpates
  • finishes
  • flattens
  • forbids
  • fragments
  • invalidates
  • jettisons
  • kills
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  • liquidates
  • negates
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  • nulls
  • obliterates
  • ousts
  • outlaws
  • overrides
  • overrules
  • overturns
  • powders
  • prohibits
  • pulverizes
  • quashes
  • ravages
  • razes
  • recalls
  • rejects
  • removes
  • repeals
  • rescinds
  • retracts
  • reverses
  • revokes
  • rolls back
  • rubs out
  • ruins
  • sets aside
  • shatters
  • smashes
  • splinters
  • strikes down
  • suspends
  • tears down
  • terminates
  • throws out
  • totals
  • vacates
  • vetoes
  • voids
  • wastes
  • wipes out
  • withdraws
  • wrecks
  • writes off
  • zaps

cancels

  • abandons
  • abates
  • abbreviates
  • abolishes
  • aborts
  • abrogates
  • annihilates
  • annuls
  • atomizes
  • avoids
  • bans
  • blacks out
  • blasts
  • bleeps
  • blips
  • blots out
  • blows up
  • blue-pencils
  • bowdlerizes
  • breaks down
  • breaks off
  • calls
  • calls off
  • censors
  • clips
  • consumes
  • countermands
  • cries off
  • crops
  • cuts
  • dashes
  • decimates
  • deles
  • deletes
  • demolishes
  • destroys
  • devastates
  • devours
  • disallows
  • disannuls
  • discards
  • discontinues
  • dismantles
  • dismisses
  • dissolves
  • ditches
  • does away with
  • dooms
  • drops
  • dynamites
  • effaces
  • ejects
  • elides
  • eliminates
  • ends
  • enjoins
  • eradicates
  • erases
  • excises
  • expels
  • expunges
  • expurgates
  • exterminates
  • extirpates
  • finishes
  • flattens
  • forbids
  • fragments
  • gives up
  • halts
  • holds back
  • interrupts
  • invalidates
  • jettisons
  • kills
  • kills off
  • launders
  • liquidates
  • negates
  • nullifies
  • nulls
  • obliterates
  • ousts
  • outlaws
  • overrides
  • overrules
  • overturns
  • powders
  • prohibits
  • pulverizes
  • quashes
  • ravages
  • razes
  • recalls
  • recants
  • red-pencils
  • redacts
  • rejects
  • relinquishes
  • removes
  • repeals
  • represses
  • rescinds
  • retracts
  • reverses
  • revokes
  • rolls back
  • rubs out
  • ruins
  • scraps
  • scrubs
  • sets aside
  • shatters
  • shortens
  • silences
  • smashes
  • splinters
  • stops
  • strikes down
  • suppresses
  • surrenders
  • suspends
  • takes back
  • tears down
  • terminates
  • throws out
  • totals
  • vacates
  • vetoes
  • voids
  • wastes
  • wipes out
  • withdraws
  • wrecks
  • writes off
  • zaps

effaces

  • abolishes
  • annihilates
  • atomizes
  • blacks out
  • blasts
  • blots out
  • blows up
  • cancels
  • consumes
  • cuts
  • dashes
  • decimates
  • demolishes
  • destroys
  • devastates
  • devours
  • discards
  • dismantles
  • dissolves
  • ditches
  • dooms
  • dynamites
  • ejects
  • eradicates
  • erases
  • excises
  • expels
  • expunges
  • exterminates
  • extirpates
  • finishes
  • flattens
  • fragments
  • jettisons
  • kills
  • kills off
  • liquidates
  • obliterates
  • ousts
  • powders
  • pulverizes
  • ravages
  • razes
  • rubs out
  • ruins
  • shatters
  • smashes
  • splinters
  • tears down
  • terminates
  • throws out
  • totals
  • wastes
  • wipes out
  • wrecks
  • zaps

kills

  • abbreviates
  • affluents
  • allures
  • annihilates
  • arrests
  • arroyos
  • assassinates
  • bayous
  • beasts
  • beckons
  • becks
  • beguiles
  • bewitches
  • billabongs
  • blackballs
  • blacklists
  • blacks out
  • bleeps
  • blips
  • blots out
  • blue-pencils
  • bournes
  • bourns
  • bowdlerizes
  • brakes
  • branches
  • breaks
  • brooklets
  • brooks
  • brutes
  • bumps off
  • burns
  • burns out
  • busts
  • butchers
  • canals
  • cancels
  • captivates
  • carries off
  • censors
  • channels
  • charms
  • chases
  • chocks
  • claims
  • clips
  • confluents
  • coulees
  • courts
  • creatures
  • creeks
  • critters
  • croaks
  • crops
  • cutoffs
  • cuts
  • cuts down
  • cuts off
  • deactivates
  • debilitates
  • decimates
  • declines
  • deles
  • deletes
  • delights
  • destroys
  • disallows
  • disapproves
  • disarms
  • dismantles
  • dismisses
  • dispatches
  • distributaries
  • does away with
  • does for
  • does in
  • does up
  • downs
  • drains
  • draws
  • draws up
  • effaces
  • elides
  • enchants
  • enervates
  • enfeebles
  • enraptures
  • enthralls
  • enthrals
  • entices
  • entrances
  • eradicates
  • erases
  • euthanatizes
  • euthanizes
  • excises
  • executes
  • exhausts
  • expunges
  • expurgates
  • fags
  • fascinates
  • fatigues
  • fells
  • finishes
  • frazzles
  • freshes
  • freshets
  • games
  • gets
  • gills
  • gratifies
  • guts
  • halts
  • harasses
  • ices
  • influents
  • interests
  • intrigues
  • invites
  • jams
  • kills off
  • knocks off
  • knocks out
  • launders
  • lures
  • magnetizes
  • makes away with
  • martyrs
  • massacres
  • millraces
  • millstreams
  • mothballs
  • mows
  • murders
  • negatives
  • neutralizes
  • nixes
  • obliterates
  • offs
  • outwears
  • phases out
  • pleases
  • prey
  • preys
  • pulls
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • quarries
  • races
  • red-pencils
  • redacts
  • refuses
  • removes
  • represses
  • rills
  • rivulets
  • rubs out
  • runlets
  • runnels
  • runoffs
  • runs
  • saps
  • scrags
  • seduces
  • shoots down
  • shortens
  • shuts off
  • silences
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • slews
  • sloughs
  • slues
  • smites
  • snuffs
  • solicits
  • stalls
  • sticks
  • streamlets
  • streams
  • suicides
  • suppresses
  • takes
  • takes out
  • targets
  • tempts
  • terminates
  • tires
  • tributaries
  • turns off
  • vetoes
  • victims
  • washes
  • washes out
  • wastes
  • watercourses
  • waterways
  • weakens
  • wearies
  • wears
  • wears out
  • wears to a frazzle
  • whacks
  • wiles
  • wipes out
  • witches
  • woos

makes away with

  • abducts
  • annihilates
  • appropriates
  • assassinates
  • blots out
  • boosts
  • bumps off
  • burglarizes
  • butchers
  • captures
  • carjacks
  • carries off
  • catches
  • claims
  • collars
  • cops
  • crimps
  • croaks
  • cuts down
  • decimates
  • destroys
  • dispatches
  • does away with
  • does for
  • does in
  • euthanatizes
  • euthanizes
  • executes
  • fells
  • filches
  • finishes
  • gets
  • grabs
  • grasps
  • heists
  • highjacks
  • hijacks
  • hooks
  • ices
  • impresses
  • kidnaps
  • kills
  • kills off
  • knocks off
  • knocks over
  • lifts
  • loots
  • makes off with
  • martyrs
  • massacres
  • misappropriates
  • mooches
  • mows
  • murders
  • nails
  • neutralizes
  • nicks
  • nips
  • offs
  • picks
  • pilfers
  • pillages
  • pinches
  • plunders
  • poaches
  • pockets
  • purloins
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • rifles
  • rips off
  • robs
  • rubs out
  • runs off with
  • rustles
  • sacks
  • scrags
  • seizes
  • shanghais
  • shoplifts
  • slaughters
  • slays
  • smites
  • snatches
  • snitches
  • snuffs
  • spirits
  • sponges
  • steals
  • suicides
  • swipes
  • takes
  • takes out
  • terminates
  • thieves
  • walks off with
  • wastes
  • waylays
  • whacks

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