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Noun killing has 3 senses
- killing, violent death - an event that causes someone to die
--1 is a kind of fatality, human death
- killing, kill, putting to death - the act of terminating a life
--2 is a kind of termination, ending, conclusion
--2 has particulars: | | deathblow, coup de grace; death; euthanasia, mercy killing; homicide; dispatch, despatch; fell; suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation; slaughter; poisoning; suffocation, asphyxiation; sacrifice, ritual killing; electrocution; decapitation, beheading; genocide, race murder, racial extermination |
- killing, cleanup - a very large profit
--3 is a kind of net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings
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