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"word": "grease"
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"word": "knock off"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "lay waste to"
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"word": "make away with"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "merc"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
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"word": "mortify"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "neutralize"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "obliterate"
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"word": "off"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "pay off"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "pick off"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "polish off"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "pop off"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "punch someone's ticket"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "put an end to"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "put down"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "put someone out of their misery"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "put six feet under"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "put to sleep"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "ravage"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "rub out"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "ruin"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "scotch"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "scupper"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "scuttle"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "send to eternity"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "send to hell"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "send to the grave"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "send to the great beyond"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "send to the next life"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "slay"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "slaughter"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "slime out"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "smash"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "smite"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "snuff"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "squash"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "stiff"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "stop someone's clock"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "take"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "terminate"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "terminate with extreme prejudice"
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"word": "top off"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "torpedo"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "take care of"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "waste"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "wax"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "whack"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
"word": "wipe out"
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"source": "Thesaurus:kill",
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"text": "The Long Lances, however, were thick in the water, and soon Portland was hit in the stern, sending her turning donuts across the ocean trying to work out which way to point her guns, popping off occasional shots at Hiei, which, by now, was heavily ablaze and a very obvious target in the night.",
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"text": "popping off at the mouth",
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"glosses": [
"To speak frankly."
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"glosses": [
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"text": "to pop one off with a denial",
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"ref": "1693, [John Locke], “§.114. 4.”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, pages 139–140:",
"text": "Perhaps it may not ſometimes be amiſs to excite their Curioſity, by bringing ſtrange and new things in their way on purpoſe to engage their Enquiry, and give them occaſion to inform themſelves about them: And if by chance their Curioſity leads them to ask, what they ſhould not know, it is a great deal better to tell them plainly, That it is a thing that belongs not not to them to know, than to pop them off with a Falſhood, or a frivolous Anſwer.",
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"glosses": [
"To thrust away, or put off promptly."
],
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[
"thrust",
"thrust"
],
[
"away",
"away"
],
[
"put off",
"put off"
],
[
"promptly",
"promptly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To thrust away, or put off promptly."
],
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"transitive"
]
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"text": "Pop that light off, will you?",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To turn off."
],
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[
"turn off",
"turn off"
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],
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"(transitive, informal, UK) To turn off."
],
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"UK",
"informal",
"transitive"
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"text": "After changing my mouse sensitivity, I immediately started popping off.",
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"text": "Pop off, queen!",
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"To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity)."
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[
"well",
"well"
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[
"video game",
"video game"
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"activity"
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"(intransitive, slang) To perform extremely well (in a video game or other activity)."
],
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{
"word": "go off"
}
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"intransitive",
"slang"
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}
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}
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