kill off

Definition

To eliminate, or make extinct.

Etymology

From kill + off.

Example Sentences

• "We killed off the Dodo by over-hunting."
• "The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera."
• "Bridget Jones’s creator Helen Fielding didn’t seem to know what to do with her once she’d married her Mr Darcy, and ended up killing him off to make Bridget interesting again."