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killing(2) (iou)



killing noun. LME.
[from KILL verb2 + -ING1.]
The action of KILL verb2; an instance of this. LME.
Christian Aid News Fr. Josimo..had been witness to the expulsions, torture..and killings of peasants for many years. attrib.: Soldier Flanders is the killing ground in which the fate of the countries of Europe has been decided.
A large profit; a quick and profitable success in business etc. slang. L19.
J. O'Faolain The old man..had made a killing in real estate.
Comb.: killing bottle: containing poisonous vapour for killing captured insects etc.; killing-circle the area within which the shot from a gun is sufficiently compact to kill game; killing field(s) a place where a heavy loss of life has occurred, esp. as the result of massacre or genocide during a time of warfare or violent civil unrest: often with ref. to Cambodia in the 1970s, through the film The Killing Fields (1984); killing-time (a) the time at which an animal is (ready to be) killed; (b) Scottish History any of the periods during which many Covenanters were put to death; killing zone (a) the area of a military engagement with a high concentration of fatalities; (b) the area of the human body where entry of a projectile would kill, esp. as indicated on a target for shooting-practice.