See killing in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:",
"text": "The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June.",
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"ref": "2013 April 24, Shohret Hoshur, Qiao Long, Hai Nan, Luisetta Mudie, Parameswaran Ponnudurai, “Xinjiang Violence Leaves 21 Dead”, in Dolkun Kamberi, Luisetta Mudie, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia:",
"text": "A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred.",
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"ref": "2020 May 30, Peter Baker, “Trump Hopes for His Own Booster Shot From SpaceX Rocket Launch”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2020-05-30:",
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"ref": "2025 January 1, Reuters, “Suspect in Montenegro shooting dies from self-inflicted injuries after killing at least 12 people”, in CNN:",
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"ref": "1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post:",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"word": "قَتْل"
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "殺 /杀"
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"code": "da",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "mortigo"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "tappaminen"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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{
"code": "ka",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "მკვლელობა"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "Töten"
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"word": "nex"
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"word": "interfectiō"
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{
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{
"code": "la",
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"tags": [
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{
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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"code": "ang",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "sleġe"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "assassinato"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubíjstvo",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "уби́йство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "animals",
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"roman": "ubój",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "убо́й"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umerščvlénije",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "умерщвле́ние"
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"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lišénije žízni",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "лише́ние жи́зни"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "ghāta",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "घात"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "asesinato"
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{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "campuṭa",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "చంపుట"
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{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "kāwälñe"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "katledilme"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"word": "öldürülme"
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{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "touwaedje"
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{
"code": "wa",
"english": "criminal",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "instance of someone being killed",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "moude"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large amount of money",
"word": "jättisumma"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large amount of money",
"word": "jättipotti"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large amount of money",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Reibach"
}
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"killing"
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