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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1907 to murder casually or cold-bloodedly

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

To bump someone off means to kill them. (often HUMOROUS, INFORMAL) They will probably bump you off anyway! ...the hit man he's hired to bump off his wife. PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)

Moby Thesaurus

assassinate, blast, blot out, cool, croak, do in, dust off, erase, execute, finish, fix, get, give the business, gun down, hit, ice, knock off, lay out, liquidate, off, polish off, put away, rub out, settle, take care of, waste, wipe out, zap