Kill
Kill verb - To deprive of life.
Miss
Miss verb - To fail to attend.
How words are described
| good | good kill | good miss |
| low | low kill | low miss |
| clean | clean kill | clean miss |
| best | best kill | best miss |
| Other adjectives: total, free, single, big, bad, early, major, automatic, immediate, guaranteed, last, literal. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Mordred: If you gentleman don't stop trembling, I might miss and kill you all!
Source: William Telling -
A very, very common variation is for the intended attack to miss the target and instead kill another person, thus forcing the murderer to cover up his tracks for a murder he didn't want to commit.
Source: Coincidental Dodge -
Kill All Humans: It's very easy to miss, but the bots in Practice Mode sometimes say this and other similar phrases.
Cite this Source
Miss and Kill. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/kill/miss
Kill & Miss. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/kill/miss>.
Miss or Kill. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/kill/miss.
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