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1 Killing
Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Killing
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2 killing
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3 murder
['mə:də] 1. noun1) ((an act of) killing a person on purpose and illegally: The police are treating his death as a case of murder; an increase in the number of murders.) δολοφονία2) (any killing or causing of death that is considered as bad as this: the murder of innocent people by terrorists.) φόνος2. verb(to kill (a person) on purpose and illegally: He murdered two children.) φονεύω,δολοφονώ,σκοτώνω- murderer- murderous
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4 slaughter
['slo:tə] 1. noun1) (the killing of people or animals in large numbers, cruelly and usually unnecessarily: Many people protested at the annual slaughter of seals.) σφαγή2) (the killing of animals for food: Methods of slaughter must be humane.) σφαγή2. verb1) (to kill (animals) for food: Thousands of cattle are slaughtered here every year.) σφάζω2) (to kill in a cruel manner, especially in large numbers.) σφαγιάζω3) (to criticize unmercifully or defeat very thoroughly: Our team absolutely slaughtered the other side.) κατακρεουργώ/κάνω με τα κρεμμυδάκια• -
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['æspərin](a (tablet of a) kind of pain-killing drug: The child has a fever - give her some/an aspirin.) ασπιρίνη -
6 bloodthirsty
1) (eager to kill people: a bloodthirsty warrior.) αιμοδιψής2) ((of a film etc) full of scenes in which there is much killing.) με πολλούς σκοτωμούς, με σκηνές αιματοχυσίας -
7 cull
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8 euthanasia
[ju:Ɵə'neiziə](the painless killing of someone who is suffering from a painful and incurable illness: Many old people would prefer euthanasia to the suffering they have to endure.) ευθανασία -
9 execution
[-ʃən]1) ((an act of) killing by law: The judge ordered the execution of the murderer.) εκτέλεση2) (the act of executing (orders or skilled movements etc).) εκτέλεση -
10 genocide
(the deliberate killing of a race of people.) γενοκτονία -
11 hanging
noun (the (act of) killing a criminal by hanging.) απαγχονισμός -
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13 homicide
(the killing of one person by another: He has been found guilty of homicide.) ανθρωποκτονία -
14 insecticide
noun (a substance (usually in powder or liquid form) for killing insects.) εντομοκτόνο -
15 kill
[kil] 1. verb(to cause the death of: He killed the rats with poison; The outbreak of typhoid killed many people; The flat tyre killed our hopes of getting home before midnight.) σκοτώνω2. noun(an act of killing: The hunter was determined to make a kill before returning to the camp.) θανάτωση, σκότωμα- killer- kill off
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(to find something to do to use up spare time: I'm just killing time until I hear whether I've got a job or not.) σκοτώνω την ώρα μου -
17 manslaughter
noun (the crime of killing someone, without intending to do so: He was found guilty of manslaughter.) ανθρωποκτονία εξ αμελείας -
18 massacre
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19 patricide
1) (the act of killing one's father.) πατροκτονία2) (a person who does such an act.) πατροκτόνος -
20 sanctuary
['sæŋk uəri]plural - sanctuaries; noun1) (a holy or sacred place: the sanctuary of the god Apollo.) ιερό,ναός2) (a place of safety from eg arrest: In earlier times a criminal could use a church as a sanctuary.) άσυλο3) (an area of land in which the killing of wild animals etc is forbidden: a bird sanctuary.) περιοχή προστασίας θηραμάτων
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