Instances of causing death; murders or the act of killing something or someone.
From Old English 'cwellan' meaning to kill, from Proto-Germanic roots. The word has meant the act of death-causing since before modern English, with 'killing' as the present participle form.
The word 'kill' comes from an ancient Germanic root that predates English by thousands of years, and it's one of the few words that humans across every culture needed and developed independently because hunting and combat were universal.
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