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 Translation for 'to kill sth' from English to Icelandic
deyða e-n/e-ðto kill sb./sth.
aflífa e-ðto kill sth.
eyða e-u [drepa]to kill sth.
landbún.
farga e-u [aflífa]
to kill sth.
Partial Matches
fella e-n [drepa, aflífa]to kill sb.
kála e-m [talm.]to kill sb.
vinna á e-mto kill sb.
ganga af e-m dauðumto kill sb.
koma e-m fyrir kattarnefto kill sb.
fyrirfara sérto kill oneself
taka líf sittto kill oneself
fremja sjálfsmorðto kill oneself
farga sérto kill oneself
ganga fyrir ætternisstapa [hátíðlegt]to kill oneself
leigumorð {hv}contract kill [sl.]
vera uppdubbaðurto be dressed to kill [fig.]
verða e-m aldurtila [e-ð verður e-m aldurtila]to kill sb. [sth. kills sb.]
orðtak
slá tvær flugur í einu höggi
to kill two birds with one stone
fergja e-ð (með e-u)to weight down sth. (with sth.) [hold it down]
bera e-ð á/í e-ðto apply sth. to/on sth. [put on]
taka e-ð fyrir e-ðto charge sth. for sth. [set a price]
rukka e-ð fyrir e-ðto charge sth. for sth. [demand a price]
hlaða e-ð með e-u to charge sth. with sth. [to load firearm, battery]
þrífa e-ð úr e-uto snatch sth. from / out of sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • The conflict reached such a point that Hekmatyar reportedly tried to kill Massoud, then 22 years old.
  • Apollo had encouraged Orestes to kill Clytemnestra, so he bears some of the guilt for the murder.
  • As of 2018, South Korea decided to improve its defense system by upgrading to the PAC-3, which has a hit-to-kill capability against incoming missiles.
  • Meanwhile, Indutiomarus, a leader of the Treveri, began to harass Labienus's camp daily, eventually provoking Labienus to send out his cavalry with specific orders to kill Indutiomarus.
  • He made it look as if Agrippina had committed suicide after her plot to kill Nero had been uncovered.

  • ... 50–70% fat) by removing the fat using heat and centrifugation, then treating it with ammonia to kill "E.
  • Hyrie or Thyrie was the mother of Cycnus. Apollo turned both the mother and son into swans when they jumped into a lake and tried to kill themselves.
  • "Dressed to Kill" was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's "Psycho", including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end.
  • Timur ordered his men "to kill all the men, to make prisoners of women and children, and to plunder and lay waste all their property."
  • A lance was a weapon of war and it was also used to kill large marine animals after it has already been harpooned.

  • When Apollo learnt of this, he sent Artemis to kill the pregnant Coronis, or Artemis had the initiative to kill Coronis on her own accord for the insult done against her brother.
  • He was enraged and shut up the whole family in one of the halls of the Alhambra, and gave orders to kill them all.
  • Second, some complement system components form a membrane attack complex to assist antibodies to kill the bacterium directly (bacteriolysis).
  • Assault may overlap with an attempted crime; for example an assault may be charged as an attempted murder if it was done with intent to kill.
  • Some brood parasites are adapted to hatch before their host's young, which allows them to destroy the host's eggs by pushing them out of the nest or to kill the host's chicks; this ensures that all food brought to the nest will be fed to the parasitic chicks.

  • Tähtinen concludes that Hindus have no misgivings about the death penalty; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.
  • Atreus in his enmity towards his brother sent Aegisthus to kill him; but the sword which Aegisthus carried was the cause of the recognition between Thyestes and his son, and the latter returned and slew his uncle Atreus, while he was offering a sacrifice on the seacoast.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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