killing

1. An event that causes someone to die (synset 107376176)
   is a type of: fatality, human death - a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
   same as: violent death
2. The act of terminating a life (synset 100219879)
   is a type of: conclusion, ending, termination - the act of ending something
   subtypes:

   • coup de grace, deathblow - the blow that kills (usually mercifully)
   • death - the act of killing
   • euthanasia, mercy killing - the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
   • homicide - the killing of a human being by another human being
   • despatch, dispatch - killing a person or animal
   • fell - the act of felling something (as a tree)
   • self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide - the act of killing yourself
   • slaughter - the killing of animals (as for food)
   • poisoning - the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill
   • asphyxiation, suffocation - killing by depriving of oxygen
   • ritual killing, sacrifice - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
   • electrocution - killing by electric shock
   • beheading, decapitation - killing by cutting off the head
   • genocide, race murder, racial extermination - systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
   same as: kill, putting to death
3. A very large profit (synset 113280696)
   domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
   is a type of: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits - the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
   same as: cleanup

1. Very funny (synset 301270449)
   "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics"
   domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
   similar to: humorous, humourous - full of or characterized by humor
   same as: sidesplitting

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