Kill
Kill verb - To use up all the physical energy of.
Usage example: the long hike up the mountain just about killed us
Wear
Wear verb - To use up all the physical energy of.
Usage example: the job of running their own business wears them sometimes
How words are described
| high | high kill | high wear |
| nice | nice kill | nice wear |
| special | special kill | special wear |
| best | best kill | best wear |
| Other adjectives: normal, usual, original, powerful, actual, real, dark, less, military, civilian. | ||
Common collocations
| time | kill time | wear time |
Both words in one sentence
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In fact, nearly everything you can manufacture that your dwarves can't eat, wear or kill things with is Vendor Trash at this stage in the game's development; presumably at least some of it has another function that hasn't been implemented as of version 0.28.181.40d.
Source: Vendor Trash -
You gotta get all the power orbs to power up your bat so you can kill the penguins, but you only kill the penguins wearing hats because the ones that don't wear hats fight the ones that do wear hats.
Source: Moon Logic Puzzle - They also wear a small mask on their face so that they would not accidentally inhale and kill a bug.
Source: Thou Shalt Not Kill
Cite this Source
Wear and Kill. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/kill/wear
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