killing
/ˈkɪl.ɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.88 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Should true Proportion ev'ry Mortal grace, / And Semetry be seen in ev'ry Face: / Beauty no longer would be thought divine, / Nor would its Charms with half the Lustre shine: / No courtly Dame a killing Look could boast, / If once the Foils of Homeliness were lost."
- "He sprang to open the door for the ladies, when they retired, with the most killing grace […]"
- "Livia found her ‘killing’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well."
- "In fact, Tarzan had never killed for “pleasure,” nor to him was there pleasure in killing."
- "The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June."
- "A police officer in neighboring Mekit county told RFA he was informed that police were searching the houses for a suspect from Pichan (in Chinese, Shanshan) county in Xinjiang’s Turpan prefecture when the killings occurred."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: kyllyng