殺

Meaning

殺 centers on ending life or cutting something down: killing, murdering, or butchering. The extended senses of slicing off, splitting, diminishing, reducing, or spoiling all follow from the idea of cutting something short or lessening it.

• 殺すころす
  N3

  to kill; to slay; to murder; to slaughter

• 殺しころし

  murder; killing; murderer

• 殺人さつじん
  N1

  murder; homicide; manslaughter

• 自殺じさつ
  N3

  suicide

• 殺害さつがい

  killing; murder

• 暗殺あんさつ
  N1

  assassination

• 虐殺ぎゃくさつ
  N1

  slaughter; massacre

• 射殺しゃさつ

  shooting to death

• 殺到さっとう
  N1

  rush; flood; deluge

• 殺意さつい

  intent to kill; intent to murder; urge to kill; murderous impulse

• 人殺しひとごろし
  N1

  murder; murderer

• 抹殺まっさつ

  erasure; obliteration

• 殺傷さっしょう

  killing and wounding; bloodshed

• 殺菌さっきん

  sterilization; sterilisation; disinfection; pasteurization

• 相殺そうさい
  N1

  offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; counterbalancing

• 銃殺じゅうさつ

  death by shooting

• 毒殺どくさつ

  killing by poisoning; killing with poison; poisoning (to death)

• 他殺たさつ
  N1

  murder

• 絞殺こうさつ

  strangling (to death); strangulation

• 併殺へいさつ

  double play

• 黙殺もくさつ

  ignoring; disregarding; taking no notice of; refusing to comment on; turning a deaf ear to

• 殺気さっき
  N1

  thirst for blood; bloodlust; determination to kill

• 刺し殺すさしころす

  to stab to death

• 殺虫剤さっちゅうざい

  insecticide; pesticide

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