Fell and Kill off

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Fell verb - To deprive of life.

Usage example: the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal

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Kill off and fell are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kill off" instead a verb "Fell".

Nearby Words: felled, fella, felling

Kill off verb - Kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many.

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Fell and kill off are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fell" instead a verb "Kill off".

In The High King, Taran uses the sword Drynwyn to kill off all of the Cauldron Born, previously thought to be unkillable (when he ran through one of them, all of them fell at once because Dyrnwyn actually broke the curse that kept them undead).

Source: Guilt-Free Extermination War

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