killとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin.

• Perhaps from 古期英語 *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
• Or, possibly a variant of 古期英語 cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell)
• Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).

Compare also Middle Dutch killen, kellen (“to kill”), Middle Low German killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

動詞

kill (三人称単数 現在形 kills, 現在分詞 killing, 過去形および過去分詞形 killed)

1. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

   Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and drugs combined.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304:

     A Troope of Horſe with Felt: Ile put't in proofe, / And when I haue ſtolne vpon theſe Son in Lawes, / Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:

     Stephano: Monſter, I will kill this man : his daughter and I will be King and Queene, ſave our Graces : and Trinculo and thy ſelfe ſhall be Vice-royes : […]

2. (transitive) To render inoperative.

   He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.

   • 1978, John Farris, The Fury

     Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.

     Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter?

     Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.

   The editor decided to kill the story.

   The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.

   My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.

4. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.

   That night, she was dressed to kill.

   That joke always kills me.

5. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to.

   These tight shoes are killing my feet.

   • 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, ISSN 1054-4836, page 110:

     two laps into our first walk, my dad needed to sit down. His back and legs were killing him. "You'll be okay," I assured him. "You just need to shake off the rust."
     I gave him a couple ofAdvil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track.

6. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.

   It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.

   It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.

7. (transitive) To use up or to waste.

   I'm just doing this to kill time.

   He told the bartender, pointing at the bottle of scotch he planned to consume, "Leave it, I'm going to kill the bottle."

8. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.

   Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate anymore.

9. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.

   The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.

10. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
11. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.

    You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.

12. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.

    My parents are going to kill me!

    • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

      "Father will kill us for this."

13. (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
    • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC‎^[2]:

      That close call encouraged Wales to launch another series of attacks that ended when lock Louis Deacon killed the ball illegally in the shadow of England's posts.

14. (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
    • 2015 May 10, Schmook, Nathan, “Billings vs Bont”, in St Kilda Football Club‎^[3]:

      As the ball was delivered deep into St Kilda's forward line by Billings, Bontempelli had position on the goal line, with a pack forming in front of him. He decided to fly but didn't kill the ball, leaving it to spill where he had been positioned moments earlier. Jack Sinclair gratefully swooped and kicked a goal that cut the margin to five points.

15. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
    • 2012, Yael Kohen, We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy‎^[4]:

      When comics fail, they "die"; when they succeed, they "kill."

    • 2016 February 23, Tim Gray, “Chris Rock Tests Jokes at Comedy Clubs Ahead of Oscars”, in Variety‎^[5]:

      You really killed it at the Comedy Store last night.

16. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
17. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
18. (metallurgy) To deadmelt.

同意語

• (to put to death): assassinate, bump off, dispatch, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack
• (to use up または waste): fritter away, while away
• (to render inoperative): break, deactivate, disable, turn off
• (to exert an overwhelming effect on): annihilate (くだけた用法)
• See also Thesaurus:kill

下位語

• instakill
• instant kill

派生語

関連する語

名詞

kill (複数形 kills)

1. The act of killing.

   The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.

2. Specifically, the death blow.

   The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.

3. The result of killing; that which has been killed.

   The fox dragged its kill back to its den.

   • 1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 929793067:

     If ye plunder his kill' from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.

4. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
   • 2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21:

     As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.

派生語

• in for the kill
• thrill kill

語源 2

Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille.

名詞

kill (複数形 kills)

1. (north-east 米国用法) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.

   The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.

   Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

名詞

kill (複数形 kills)

1. (rare) Alternative form of kiln
   • 1878, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, The Ceramic Art of Great Britain from Pre-historic Times Down to the Present Day, page 39:

     This very curious and valuable record is as follows, in the handwriting of Conyers and the accompanying engraving is carefully reduced (see Fig. 138 ) from Conyers' own drawing:—“This kill was full of the coarser sorts of potts or cullings, so that few were saved whole, viz., lamps, bottles, urnes, dishes.

   • 1945, Arthur Edwin James, The Potters and Potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania, page 34:

     The stack of one of the pottery kills is still a visible land mark of this once thriving industry.

   • 1951, Bulletin - Eastern States Archeological Federation, page 11:

     A funerary ceremony comparable to that reported from Kolomoki site is indicated, though no "pottery kill” was located.

   • 2000, Argo - Volume 43, Issue 1, page 59:

     We may indeed assume that cracked and broken ware was discarded in the immediate vicinity of the pottery kills, that is, if it was not thrown in to the Krka.