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HSK
to kill oneself / to commit suicide / to attempt suicide
HSK 5
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  *殺* | 殺* | *殺
to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack / to weaken; to reduce / (dialect) to smart / (used after a verb) extremely
HSK 5
to disinfect / (computing) to destroy a computer virus
HSK 5
killer / murderer / hit man / (sports) formidable player
HSK 7-9
to massacre; to slaughter
HSK 7-9
to assassinate
HSK 7-9
to murder
HSK 7-9
homicide (law)
to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
to kill (in hunting)
to behead
Goddam! / goddamn / wretched
to massacre / to slaughter
murderer / homicide
to exterminate
to chase to kill
desire to commit murder / great danger
to kill sb for a trifle
insecticide / pesticide
to shoot dead
to attack the enemy
to beat down the price / to haggle / to slash one's prices
to kill germs / to disinfect / to sterilize
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
to take the life of a living creature
murder case / homicide case
to fight at close quarters; to fight tooth and nail
to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting / (fig.) to snuff out
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)
to charge
(idiom) getting killed
to fight and kill; to engage in fierce combat (also used figuratively of opposing chess players)
to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife
to massacre / to slaughter
to mistakenly kill / manslaughter
homicide / to murder / to kill (a person)
austere / stern / harsh / somber and desolate (autumn or winter)
ferocious / murderous-looking
to force one's way out of encirclement; to break through
murderous spirit / aura of death / to vent one's anger
to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay
to grapple (with the enemy) / to fight at the risk of one's life
the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38)
It's all exaggeration, you don't need to take it seriously / a fuss about nothing / nothing to write home about
to bury alive / to ensnare
willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
murder case
(loanword) massage
to murder without blinking an eye (idiom) / ruthless / cold-blooded
lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies
to commit suicide to escape punishment
murder as a crime of passion
antivirus software
bloodthirsty
to kill in revenge
(fig.) trump card
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
lit. to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom) / (fig.) control over the fate of others
to kill or injure
to kill to the last one (idiom) / to exterminate / to eradicate / ruthless
to smash a ball / to spike
to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
to kill / to murder
to murder / assassination
“surrender and your life will be spared”
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
(idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred
don't use a sledgehammer on a nut / aquila non capit muscam
to make a surprise attack / to pounce on (an enemy)
to strangle / to throttle
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow)
hara-kiri
to slaughter (an animal for meat) / to butcher
robbing the rich to help the poor
to kill by poisoning
to hunt and kill (an animal or fish)
Decis (insecticide brand)
to erase / to cover traces / to obliterate evidence / to expunge / to blot out / to suppress
to not deserve (one's good fortune etc)
premeditated murder
fungicide
to be a blot on the landscape / to dampen spirits / to spoil the fun / to be a wet blanket
life-and-death power / ultimate power
to kill / to cull
to attack and kill
to blot out at one stroke / to reject out of hand / to deny without a hearing
to storm (a city etc) / to raid
premeditated murder
to wipe out / to exterminate
rat poison
to kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example
deadly weapon
to deal the fatal blow (sports, chess etc) / to score the winning point
to attack with a bladed weapon

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