WORD OF THE DAY -KILL -

Thesaurus-Synonyms - KILL

'kill' verb to end the life of a person or an animal: My brother was killed in a motorcycle accident. *θανατώνω, φονεύω, σκοτώνω

[assassinate] to murder a well-known or important person: President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. * δολοφονώ, σκοτώνω, φονεύω (ηγέτη, σημαντικό πρόσωπο κτλ.)

[bump off] (informal) to murder someone: The gang boss was bumped off by member of a rival gang.*σκοτώνω, «ξεπαστρεύω»,
«καθαρίζω»

[do in] (informal) to murder someone: She did her old man in with a carving knife. * δολοφονώ, «ξεκάνω» κάποιον

[execute] to put someone to death as a punishment for committing a very serious crime: Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be executed by hanging in the UK. * θανατώνω, εκτελώ κατάδικο ή κρατούμενο

[massacre] to kill large numbers of people in a violent way: Troops massacred the entire population of the village.
* κατασφάζω, σφαγιάζω, κάνω μακελειό, (ομαδική) σφαγή

[murder] to kill someone deliberately: The woman was murdered by her jealous lover. * δολοφονώ με πρόθεση

[put to sleep] to end the life of an animal that is suffering, usually by giving it a lethal injection: The vet put my cat to sleep because it had cancer. * (για ζώα:) χαρίζω ευθανασία με θανατηφόρα ένεση

[slaughter] to kill an animal for food, or to kill large numbers of people violently: The pigs were transported to the abattoir to be slaughtered. * σφάζω ζώο για τροφή, φονεύω ομαδικά ανθρώπους, σφαγιάζω, κν. «μακελεύω»

taken from the BETSIS ELT DICTIONARY & THESAURUS