The meaning of KILLING is the act of one that kills. How to use killing in a sentence.

assassinate applies to deliberate killing openly or secretly often for political motives.

10 hours ago · Prosecutors have charged a man allegedly connected to two deaths tied to the "Texas Killing Fields," a site where dozens of bodies have been found since the 1970s.

5 hours ago · A 61-year-old man was arrested in connection to the deaths of two females found in the so-called 'Texas Killing Fields' between Houston and Galveston.

1 day ago · A suspect has been indicted in the decades-long "Texas Killing Fields" cold case 40 years after two women found dead in an area where about 30 bodies were found along a Lone Star State …

adjective 1. informal very tiring; exhausting a killing pace 2. informal extremely funny; hilarious

In the English language, terms for types of killing often end in the suffix -cide.

1. a general term for murder; the killing of another human being. 2. the murderer of another. — homicidal, adj. homicidomania

He was convicted of her killing. They are accused of terrible killings. Police are investigating the killings. The community is stunned by the killing. These brutal killings must be avenged.

Types of killing -cide, a suffix that refers to types of killing (see List of types of killing), such as: Homicide, one human killing another