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HSK
to disinfect / (computing) to destroy a computer virus
HSK 5
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  *杀* | 杀* | *杀
to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack / to weaken; to reduce / (dialect) to smart / (used after a verb) extremely
HSK 5
to kill oneself / to commit suicide / to attempt suicide
HSK 5
killer / murderer / hit man / (sports) formidable player
HSK 7-9
to massacre; to slaughter
HSK 7-9
to assassinate
HSK 7-9
to murder
HSK 7-9
to shut out; to block; to smother
homicide / to murder / to kill (a person)
to kill germs / to disinfect / to sterilize
to kill
to kill to the last one (idiom) / to exterminate / to eradicate / ruthless
to deal the fatal blow (sports, chess etc) / to score the winning point
to kill (or assault) sadistically
to kill (in hunting)
to murder / assassination
to put the last hand to (a book, a film etc) / to finalize / to kill-green (a step in the processing of tea leaves)
to attack the enemy
lit. to kill the chicken to get the eggs (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
to hunt and kill (an animal or fish)
(idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred
to take the life of a living creature
to assassinate / (military) to fight with a bayonet / (baseball) to put out (a baserunner)
to slaughter (an animal for meat) / to butcher
to shoot dead (with a gun, or bow and arrow)
to erase / to cover traces / to obliterate evidence / to expunge / to blot out / to suppress
to strangle / to throttle
to murder / to assassinate / intentional homicide
to massacre / to slaughter
to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting / (fig.) to snuff out
to kill / to murder
to chase to kill
to mistakenly kill / manslaughter
to attack with a bladed weapon
to rape and murder
to shoot dead
murderous spirit / aura of death / to vent one's anger
austere / stern / harsh / somber and desolate (autumn or winter)
to fight and kill; to engage in fierce combat (also used figuratively of opposing chess players)
insecticide
desire to commit murder / great danger
to massacre / to slaughter
to massacre one another (idiom); internecine strife
homicide (law)
to lend sb a knife to kill sb / to get sb else to do one's dirty work / to attack using the strength of another (idiom)
lit. to kill the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others
to kill in revenge
to kill by poisoning
to exterminate
to smash a ball / to spike
to charge
(idiom) to kill sb to prevent them from revealing sth
to grapple (with the enemy) / to fight at the risk of one's life
to fight at close quarters; to fight tooth and nail
to kill indiscriminately / to massacre
to behead
to kill
(idiom) getting killed
lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) / fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
to kill / to cull
murder as a crime of passion
to kill or injure
to beat down the price / to haggle / to slash one's prices
to rob and kill
to kill sb for his property (idiom); to murder for money
lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres
lit. to kill people like scything flax (idiom) / fig. to kill people like flies
lit. to spare or to kill, to give or take away (idiom) / (fig.) control over the fate of others
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
to not deserve (one's good fortune etc)
robbing the rich to help the poor
to be a blot on the landscape / to dampen spirits / to spoil the fun / to be a wet blanket
to blot out at one stroke / to reject out of hand / to deny without a hearing
to kill
deadly weapon
to attack and kill
to behead
to exterminate
to spike the ball (volleyball etc) / to smash (tennis etc)
to storm (a city etc) / to raid
to swindle associates, friends or relatives
destructive power / harmfulness
antivirus software / abbr. for 殺毒軟件|杀毒软件
infanticide
(Internet) flash sale / (sports or online gaming) rapid dispatch of an opponent
the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38)
murderer / homicide
massacre; mass slaughter
insecticide / pesticide
to strangle to death
(fig.) trump card
to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay
pasteurization
to praise sb in a way that does them harm (e.g. by causing them to become complacent)
Chinese subculture of young urban migrants, usually of low education, with exaggerated hairstyles, heavy make-up, flamboyant costumes, piercings etc (loanword from "smart")
to force one's way out of encirclement; to break through
massage (loanword)
serial killer
antivirus software

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