how to pronounce kill

/kɪl/

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kill is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of kill pronunciation

An example use of kill in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… doing because I said they will kill my …”

meaning of kill

Kill means to cause the death of someone or something.

kill frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word kill occurs in english on average 47.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics kill can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that kill can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;