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• “The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered“

Synonyms

• slay kill intentionally and with premeditation
• hit (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); the act of contacting one thing with another; a conspicuous success; (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together; a dose of a narcotic drug ; a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; a connection made via the internet to another website; cause to move by striking; hit against; deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; reach a destination, either real or abstract; affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; hit with a missile from a weapon ; encounter by chance; gain points in a game; cause to experience suddenly; make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target; kill intentionally and with premeditation; drive something violently into a location; reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments; hit the intended target or goal ; pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
• dispatch an official report (usually sent in haste) ; the act of sending off something ; the property of being prompt and efficient; killing a person or animal ; send away towards a designated goal ; complete or carry out; kill intentionally and with premeditation; dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently; kill without delay
• bump off kill intentionally and with premeditation
• off kill intentionally and with premeditation; from a particular thing or place or position (`forth’ is obsolete); at a distance in space or time; no longer on or in contact or attached; not in operation or operational; below a satisfactory level; (of events) no longer planned or scheduled; in an unpalatable state; not performing or scheduled for duties
• polish off finish a task completely; kill intentionally and with premeditation; finish eating all the food on one’s plate or on the table
• remove degree of figurative distance or separation; remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; remove from a position or an office ; dispose of; cause to leave; shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes; go away or leave; kill intentionally and with premeditation; get rid of something abstract

• “The tourists murdered the French language“

Synonyms

• mangle clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers ; press with a mangle; injure badly by beating ; alter so as to make unrecognizable; destroy or injure severely
• mutilate destroy or injure severely; alter so as to make unrecognizable; destroy or injure severely

Synonyms

• slaying unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
• execution putting a condemned person to death ; the act of performing; (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer ; (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable ; a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out ; the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being