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KILLS

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

KILLS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

KILLS root KILL-s

Word family

KILL 1 KILLING-ing 5 KILLED-ed 3

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

KILLINGS 11 KILLINGLY 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo put to death; to extinguish the life of.
    • Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.
  2. transitiveTo render inoperative.
    • He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
    • The editor decided to kill the story.
    • The news that a hurricane had destroyed our beach house killed our plans to sell it.
    • My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.
  4. excessivefigurativelytransitiveTo amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
    • That night, she was dressed to kill.
    • That joke always kills me.
  5. excessivefigurativelyintransitivetransitiveTo cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
    • These tight shoes are killing my feet.
    • You don't ever want to get rabies. The doctor will have to give you multiple shots and they really kill.
  6. figurativelytransitiveTo produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
    • It kills me to throw out three whole turkeys, but I can't get anyone to take them and they've already started to go bad.
    • It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
  7. transitiveTo use up or to waste.
    • I'm just doing this to kill time.
  8. figurativelyinformaltransitiveTo overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
    • Look at the amount of destruction to the enemy base. We pretty much killed their ability to retaliate.
    • The team had absolutely killed their traditional rivals, and the local sports bars were raucous with celebrations.
  9. transitiveTo force a company out of business.
  10. excessivefigurativelyinformaltransitiveTo punish severely.
    • My parents are going to kill me!
  11. transitiveTo strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
  12. transitiveTo cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
  13. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  14. informaltransitiveTo cause to assume the value zero.
  15. InternettransitiveTo disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  16. To deadmelt.
  17. slangTo sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
  18. informalreflexiveTo exert oneself to an excessive degree.
    • Don't kill yourself raking the leaves now; we're due for a windstorm tonight.
noun
  1. The act of killing.
    • The assassin liked to make a clean kill, and thus favored small arms over explosives.
  2. Specifically, the death blow.
    • The hunter delivered the kill with a pistol shot to the head.
  3. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
    • The fox dragged its kill back to its den.
  4. countableAn instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
    • confirmed kills
    • A flying ace is usually one with five or more confirmed kills.
  5. The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  6. NortheasternUSarchaicdialectalA creek or stream; (more loosely) any watercourse, such as a channel or arm of the sea.
    • The channel beyond Staten Island, which connects Newark Bay with Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills.
  7. NortheasternUSarchaicdialectalIn particular, a waterway with a name ending in kill, such as the Beaverkill or the East Kill.
    • We're gonna go flyfishing over in the kill.
  8. NortheasternUSalternativerareAlternative form of kiln.