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killed

 (kĭld)
adj.
1. Put to death. Often used in combination: fresh-killed meat.
2. Of, relating to, or containing microorganisms or infectious agents that have been inactivated so as to be incapable of causing infection: a killed virus; killed vaccines.
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They killed Pylaemenes peer of Mars, leader of the Paphlagonian warriors.
I immediately pursued the Indians, with only eight men, and on the sixteenth overtook them, killed two of the party, and recovered the girls.
"Arise," he cried in a terrible voice, "and let me kill you as you have killed my son!"
"They would have killed you when they had you prisoner.
That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty.
he died bravely: he killed three of the Zulu devils before he himself was dead.
At the battle of Borodino Napoleon shot at no one and killed no one.
The river-turtles had long ago been killed by Bagheera, cleverest of hunters, and the fish had buried themselves deep in the dry mud.
Do you find the means, I will execute it, provided it is not to kill the man, for Mercedes has declared she will kill herself if Dantes is killed."
"Stranger," said they, "you shall pay for shooting people in this way: you shall see no other contest; you are a doomed man; he whom you have slain was the foremost youth in Ithaca, and the vultures shall devour you for having killed him."
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog's den for my fair dues?
It swore every boy to stick to the band, and never tell any of the secrets; and if anybody done anything to any boy in the band, whichever boy was ordered to kill that person and his family must do it, and he mustn't eat and he mustn't sleep till he had killed them and hacked a cross in their breasts, which was the sign of the band.