kill

Naija

Etymology

From English kill

Pronunciation

• kîl

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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.

1. De don kill di man.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, The man has been assassinated.)
2. 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

• die, peme

Antonyms

• born

Translations

• English: to put to death; to extinguish the life of.