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What (who) is kill off - definition
1990 FILM BY MAGGIE GREENWALD
The Kill Off
Killing off
DEVICE IN FICTION
Killed off; Kill off; Killed-off
The killing off of a character is a device in fiction, whereby a character dies, but the story continues. The term, frequently applied to television, film, video game, anime, manga and chronological series, often denotes an untimely or unexpected death motivated by factors beyond the storyline.
kill off
DEVICE IN FICTION
Killed off; Kill off; Killed-off
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If you say that a group or an amount of something has been killed off, you mean that all of them or all of it have been killed or destroyed.
Their natural predators have been killed off...
It is an effective treatment for the bacteria and does kill it off...
All blood products are now heat treated to kill off any infection.
PHRASAL VERB: be V-ed P, V n P, V P n (not pron)
The Kill-Off (novel)
NOVEL BY JIM THOMPSON
The Kill-off (novel)
The Kill-Off is an American crime novel by Jim Thompson first published in 1957, and reprinted by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in 1999. The novel is a bleak tale of murder in a small, dying resort town being torn apart by gossip, racism, incest (actual or alleged), alcoholism and financial difficulties.
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The Kill-Off
The Kill-Off is a 1989 American crime drama film written and directed by Maggie Greenwald, based on a 1957 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. It was an independent film, produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher and shot by Declan Quinn in his film debut.
Examples of use of kill off
1. Alex Graham Chief executive, Wall to Wall Television Oh for goodness sake, I think that every time there is a new technology people predict the death of the old one, but movies didn‘t kill off newspapers, television didn‘t kill off the cinema, video didn‘t kill off television, and nor did DVDs, and the internet will not kill off television networks either.
2. If the government‘s proposals are meant to kill off frivolous use of the act, they are likely to kill off much serious research in the process.
3. It charges 70 to kill off the nests with pesticides.
4. There are few things which could kill off the City.
5. Some MPs (and unions) fear more state cash would kill off voluntary political parties altogether.