kill off
/kɪl ɔf/ verb- To eliminate, to make extinct. · We killed off the Dodo by over-hunting.
- Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot. · The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.
- To put an end to.
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