Killing

Synonyms for killing
noun murder

homicide
massacre
slaughter

manslaughter
carnage
bloodshed

execution
extermination
capital punishment

slaying
assassination
bumping off

Antonyms for killing

birth

Concept Thesaurus for word killing
1. Vitality; vitality in general
Synonyms – noun

killing
assassination
blood
carnage
fusillade
finishing stroke
judicial murder
murderer
cutthroat
Moloch
gallows, executioner (punishment)
highbinder [U.S.].
fratricide
uxoricide
hara-kiri
auto da fe
garrote
Aceldama.
sporting
coursing
sportsman
Nimrod
fatal accident

homicide
trucidation
bloodshed
butchery
noyade
coup de grace
martydom.
Cain
garroter
matador
maneater
regicide
infanticide
vaticide.
suttee
holocaust.
hanging
[Destruction of animals] slaughtering
the chase
shooting
huntsman
slaughterhouse
violent death

manslaughter
iccusion
gore
battue.
Thuggism.
quietus
butcher
assassin
bravo
sabreur
apache
parricide
feticide
suicide
Juggernath
suffocation
lapidation.
phthiozoics
venery
fishing
fisherman
shambles
casuality.

murder
effusion of blood
slaughter
massacre
deathblow
execution (capital punishment)
slayer
terrorist
Thug
guet-a-pens
hatchet man [U.S.]
matricide
foeticide
felo de se
immolation
strangulation
deadly weapon (arms)
sport
hunting
pig-sticking
hunter
abattoir.

Synonyms – verbs

kill
murder
victimize
deprive of life
dispatch
strangle
choke
smother
cut down
stab
put to the sword
brain
give a deathblow
behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas (execute)
nip in the bud
strike the death knell of.
run amuck
welter in one’s blood
kill oneself

put to death
assassinate
immolate
make away with
burke
garrote
stifle
asphyxiate
cut to pieces
run through the body
put to the edge of the sword.
knock on the head
deal a deathblow
hunt
launch into eternity
give no quarter
wade knee deep in blood
dash out one’s brains
make away with oneself

slay
butcher
massacre
put an end to
settle
hang
suffocate
drown.
cut the throat
bayonet
shoot dead
stone
give a quietus
shoot.
send to one’s last account
pour out blood like water
imbrue one’s hands in blood.
blow out one’s brains
put an end to oneself

shed blood
slaughter
take away life
despatch
do for.
throttle
stop the breath
saber
jugulate
eviscerate
blow one’s brains out
lapidate
give a coup de grâce.
cut off
sign one’s death warrant
decimate
die a violent death
commit suicide
put an end to it all.

Synonyms – adjectives

killing
sanguinolent
red handed
gory.
dead
unhealthy
piscatorial

murderous
blood-stained
bloody
mortal
deadly
internecine
piscatory.

slaughterous
bloodthirsty
bloody minded
fatal
mortiferous
suicidal.

sanguinary
homicidal
ensanguined
lethal
lethiferous
sporting

Synonyms – phrases
“assassination has never changed the history of the world” [Disraeli].
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Other adjectives related to killing

bloodstained
cruentous
ensanguined
homicidal
lethiferous
piscatorial
sicarious
unhealthy

bloodthirsty
cynegetic
fatal
internecine
mortal
piscatory
slaughterous
venatic

bloody
deadly
gory
killing
mortiferous
red
sporting

bloody
deathly
halieutic
lethal
murderous
sanguinolent
suicidal

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