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| poison |
a substance that can kill or seriously harm living beings if it is swallowed, breathed, or otherwise taken in. [2/5 definitions] |
| python |
a snake that is not poisonous and lives in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Pythons kill by winding around their prey and squeezing it until it can not breathe. |
| rabies |
a disease that is caused by a virus and can kill people, dogs, and other mammals. Symptoms of rabies are foaming at the mouth and violent or strange behavior. A person can get rabies if scratched or bitten by an animal that has the disease. |
| shoot |
to hit, wound, destroy, or kill with a bullet, arrow, or similar object. [1/11 definitions] |
| slaughter |
to kill and butcher for food. [2/4 definitions] |
| slay |
to kill deliberately and violently. |
| smother |
to kill by not allowing enough air; suffocate. [1/5 definitions] |
| stone |
to throw stones at to punish or kill. [1/6 definitions] |
| strangle |
to kill by stopping the breathing of, usually by surrounding the neck with something; choke. [1/2 definitions] |
| suffocate |
to kill by not allowing to breathe; smother. [1/3 definitions] |
| wipe out |
(informal) to kill. [1/2 definitions] |
| zap |
(informal) to strike, or kill suddenly. [1/2 definitions] |
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