kill
Naija
Etymology
From English kill
Pronunciation
- kîl
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 67
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 192
- Frequency in raw corpus: 1286
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 289
Verb
- Make person/someting extinguish di life for anoder person/someting.
- De don kill di man. — (NSC_Tella_2020, The man has been assassinated.)
- For Nigeria law, if you kill person, na so dem go kill you. — (In Nigerian constitution, a person that kills will likewise be killed.)
Synonyms
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Translations
- English: to put to death; to extinguish the life of.