killing

killing
killingly, adv.
/kil"ing/, n.
1. the act of a person or thing that kills.
2. the total game killed on a hunt.
3. a quick and unusually large profit or financial gain: a killing in the stock market.
adj.
4. that kills.
5. exhausting: a killing pace.
6. Informal. irresistibly funny.
[1400-50; late ME (ger.); see KILL1, -ING1, -ING2]

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