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  • 11kill with kindness — kill (someone) with kindness to be too kind to someone. Rob s killing me with kindness he phones me all the time to see if I m alright when really I just need to be left alone …

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  • 12kill with kindness —    When you are excessive in your efforts to be helpful or generous, you can harm someone, or kill them with kindness.     The children are overweight, but their grandmother continues to give them chocolates and cookies she ll kill them with… …

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  • 13kill with kindness — ► kill with kindness spoil (someone) with overindulgence. Main Entry: ↑kill …

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  • 14kill — kill1 W1S1 [kıl] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(make somebody/something die)¦ 2 kill yourself 3¦(make something stop/fail)¦ 4¦(be angry with somebody)¦ 5¦(annoyed/sad)¦ 6 would/could kill for something 7 my head/back etc is killing me 8 kill time/an hour etc 9… …

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  • 15kill — 1 /kIl/ verb 1 MAKE SB/STH DIE (I, T) to make a living thing die: His parents were killed in a plane crash. | What s the best way to kill weeds? | Drug abuse can kill. | kill yourself: You re going to kill yourself on that motorcycle. | The jury… …

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  • 16kindness — noun 1 (U) kind behaviour towards someone: I can t thank you enough for your kindness. 2 (C) a kind action: do sb a kindness: It would be doing him a kindness to tell him the truth. see also: kill sb with kindness kill 1 (11) …

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  • 17kill — verb 1》 cause the death of.     ↘put an end to.     ↘stop (a computing process). 2》 informal overwhelm with an emotion: the suspense is killing me.     ↘cause pain or anguish to.     ↘(kill oneself) overexert oneself. 3》 pass (time) while waiting …

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  • 18kindness — kind|ness [ˈkaındnıs] n 1.) [U] kind behaviour towards someone ▪ I can t thank you enough for your kindness. 2.) a kind action do sb a kindness ▪ It would be doing him a kindness to tell him the truth. →kill sb with kindness at ↑kill1 …

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  • 19kill — ► VERB 1) cause the death of. 2) put an end to. 3) informal overwhelm with an emotion. 4) informal cause pain or anguish to. 5) pass (time). 6) stop (a computing process). 7) (in sport) make (the ball) stop …

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  • 20kill — kill1 killable, adj. /kil/, v.t. 1. to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. 2. to destroy; do away with; extinguish: His response killed our hopes. 3. to destroy or neutralize the active qualities of: to kill an odor. 4. to… …

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