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killed

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for killed.

Editorial note

This pretty much killed the idea of using Python in VS, unfortunately (for me anyways).

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

(medicine, of vaccine) Inactivated.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of killed gathered in one view.

adjective

(medicine, of vaccine) Inactivated.

adjective

(metallurgy, of steel) Deoxidized.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for killed.

adjective

(medicine, of vaccine) Inactivated.

adjective

(metallurgy, of steel) Deoxidized.

Example sentences

1

This pretty much killed the idea of using Python in VS, unfortunately (for me anyways).

2

Very different from {P}NaCl, which was very successfully killed by everyone except Chrome ignoring it.

3

In terms of the number of people killed as a proportion of the population (est.

4

Yeah, ~500 people have been killed by police in America so far this year.

5

There's always been a subculture of niche print/book publishing which squeaks by on a subscription model, and the web hasn't killed that.

6

How many of the 385 people were killed as a consequence of criminal actions?

7

Reading further, it's actually 50 officers who were killed by firearm in 2014, and it's not clear whether that number includes suicides.

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The web has already killed most of review and proofreading process in press.

9

That's about double the total number of police killed in that year.

10

Also, we seem to have killed the US Energy Information and Administration energy prices website.

11

Too bad most of it was killed off by antipiracy interests...

12

The other half of what killed Blackberry was Microsoft Activesync.

Quote examples

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From the article you link to: "Overall, blacks were killed at three times the rate of whites or other minorities when adjusting by the population of the census tracts where the shootings occurred."

2

Marx was no friend of humanity, and should be remembered as someone who had bad and violent ideas that led to millions of people oppressed and killed as part of the "proletariat revolution to overthrow the bourgeois".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use killed in a sentence?

This pretty much killed the idea of using Python in VS, unfortunately (for me anyways).

What does killed mean?

(medicine, of vaccine) Inactivated.

What part of speech is killed?

killed is commonly used as adjective.