bumping off
Doing someone in
Bumping off is killing someone, typically in a deliberate or criminal manner.
The phrase carries a casual, almost flippant tone that makes it common in crime fiction and noir: The mob was bumping off witnesses one by one.
It suggests murder treated as routine business rather than momentous act.
- slayingAct of killing
- killingCausing death deliberately
- snuff outExtinguish by covering
- assassinateMurder a prominent figure
- rub outErase or kill
execute · eliminating · manslaughter · rubbing out · offing · dispatching · terminating · whacking · sleep with the fishes · cement shoes · liquidation · extermination · doing in · murder · homicide · eradication · silencing · lights out
- eliminatingeliminating, eradicating, wiping out, exterminating, abolishing
bumping offsaving
Reserving for future use
rescuing · reviving · resuscitating · sparing · delivering
bumping offprotecting
Keeping from harm
safeguarding · shielding · defending · looking after · guarding
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