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Hi, everybody.

Welcome back to know your verbs.

My name is Alicia, and in this episode, we're going to talk about the verb kill.

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The basic definition of this verb is to end the life of someone or something.

Examples.

The murderer killed four people.

I hate killing cockroaches.

No.

Okay, let's look at the congregations for this for present.

Tense kill kills past tense, killed past participle.

Tents killed.

Progressive killing.

All right, so now let's talk about some additional meanings for this verb.

The 1st 1 is to put an end to something, to put an end to something, to cause something to finish.

Examples.

Our poor sales killed our chance of success.

The CEO is decision killed our project.

All right, so in both of these examples, we see something coming to an end.

Something finishes because of something else.

So in the first example, sentence poor sales killed our chances of success, meaning the poor sales resulted in or caused an end to our chances of success.

So that means there was no more chance of success because of poor sales.

The poor sales killed it in the second example sentence the CEO is decision killed our project there.

The CEO made a decision that caused the project to end That caused the project to stop.

So we use kill to explain us.

Okay.

The second additional meeting for the verb is to cause pain to cause pain examples.

My head is killing me, he says his back has been killing him for two weeks.

So in these sentences, we see kill in the progressive tense.

This quite common.

So something is killing me.

Something is killing him.

It doesn't actually mean that person's life is going to end.

It means the pain is very strong.

The pain is extremely bad and it feels like they're dying.

It's like it's so bad.

It's so uncomfortable.

We used the expression killing.

Like I said, we tend to use this in the progressive tense.

Um, we don't really say my head killed me.

That sounds strange or my head kills me.

But rather, my head is killing me because it's like a temporary situation.

Remember, we use the continuous or the progressive tense for temporary situations and pain in most cases is temporary.

So we say this is killing me.

The next meeting is to become very angry, to become very angry with someone.

Let's look at some examples first.

Oh, man, my boss is gonna kill me for this mistake.

Your mom is gonna kill you from making such a mess.

This expression doesn't really mean that someone's life is going to end.

Instead, this use of kill me, it means that someone is going to become very, very angry.

So in the first example sentence Oh, man, my boss is gonna kill me for this mistake.

It means I made a mistake.

And my boss is going to be very, very angry with me because of my mistake.

So it doesn't mean the boss is going to end this person's life.

Just the boss is going to be very angry in the second example Sentence, Uh, your mom is gonna kill you for making such a mess again.

It means the mother is going to be very, very angry at the other person in the conversation.

The mother is going to be so mad because of the mess.

But we used the expression Your mother is gonna kill you.

She's going to kill you.

So quite extreme level of anger and casual casual expressions on Lee.

Oh, also, we show the reason for this anger with four to.

So my boss is gonna kill me for making a mistake.

My mother's gonna kill me for making a mess.

So we show the reason with four.

The fourth meaning here is to consume something completely.

This is often used with drinks.

Examples.

We killed three bottles of wine at dinner.

The students killed the cake in an hour.

This is a very, very casual expression that suggests kind of a surprising amount.

And like I said, it's usually used for drinks like you consumed more drinks than you expected.

Like oh, how we drank a lot.

We killed three bottles of wine dinner last night, two of us.

So that seems like quite a lot.

I think that's an extreme example.

But to say killed something means you completely finished.

Everything was gone.

So to kill a drink means to finish it completely.

Okay, let's take a look at some variations for the verb kill.

The 1st 1 is to kill time to kill time.

This means waste time to waste time examples.

I've got about 15 minutes to kill before my next meeting.

We're just killing time until the movie starts.

So yeah, this just means to waste time.

So I've got 15 minutes to kill.

Means I've got 15 minutes to waste.

I've got 15 minutes to destroy.

Like I have 15 extra minutes.

I have no plan for these 15 minutes, so I'm going to kill them.

Just do nothing.

Waste time.

Second example sentences the same thing until the movie were just killing time.

So this is our current status.

Just wasting time until the movie.

The second variation is the expression to kill it to kill it.

This is a very positive and casual expression, which means to do something with a high level of skill, like sports or entertainment or your job to kill it.

Examples.

You're killing it Lately.

Serena Williams killed it at the tournament last week, killing it in progressive tense.

In the first sentence you're killing, it means you're doing a great job or like you're doing awesome where your work it's so great lately.

And it's a very casual but very like positive phrase.

It's encouraging, like, Wow, you're killing it Great work.

So it's like it sounds like your level of ability is quite high in the second example sentence.

It's a sport example Serena Williams killed it at the tournament last week.

Means her performance at the tournament in the past was really, really good.

She did a fantastic job.

She won all her matches, for example, she killed it in past tense.

Ah, The next variation is to kill off something or to kill something off.

Both are okay.

This means to destroy something over time.

So it sze different from to kill, like killing something to kill.

A spider, for example, is in one moment one motion maybe to kill off something or to kill something off means over a period of time something is destroyed.

Examples.

Big companies are killing off small businesses.

Pollution is killing off sea life.

So both of these examples show destruction or like death happening over a period of time.

So maybe not like death of a person or death of an animal, but rather like a business goes away or like an environment is destroyed.

For example, so in the first example.

Big companies are killing off small businesses means big companies are growing bigger and bigger and destroying small businesses over time.

In the second example sentence, it's about the environment.

Pollution is killing off.

See life gradually over time.

See, life is dying.

All right, So those air a few perhaps new ways to use the verb kill.

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Conjugation.

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