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• eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off go
  kill in large numbers
  
• decimate go
  kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
  
• drown go
  kill by submerging in water
  
• slaughter, massacre, mow down go
  kill a large number of people indiscriminately
  
• wipe out, erase go
  remove from memory or existence
  
• slaughter, butcher go
  kill (animals) usually for food consumption
  
• poison go
  kill with poison
  
• stone, lapidate go
  kill by throwing stones at
  
• poison go
  kill by its poison
  
• commit suicide go
  kill oneself
  
• dispatch go
  kill without delay
  
• zap, vaporize go
  kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
  
• sacrifice go
  kill or destroy
  
• take off go
  prove fatal
  
• tomahawk go
  kill with a tomahawk
  
• put down, destroy go
  put (an animal) to death
  
• saber, sabre go
  kill with a saber
  
• overlay, overlie go
  kill by lying on
  
• brain go
  kill by smashing someone's skull
  
• put away, put to sleep go
  kill gently, as with an injection
  
• waste, knock off, neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, do in go
  get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  
• exterminate, kill off go
  kill en masse
  
• smother, suffocate, asphyxiate go
  deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
  
• throttle, strangle, strangulate go
  kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
  
• decapitate, behead, decollate go
  cut the head of
  
• stake, impale go
  kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
  
• dismember go
  separate the limbs from the body
  
• martyr go
  kill as a martyr
  
• shed blood go
  kill violently
  
• hit, dispatch, murder, remove, polish off, slay, bump off, off go
  kill intentionally and with premeditation
  
• assassinate go
  murder
  
• execute, put to death go
  kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
  
• draw, quarter, draw and quarter go
  pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
  
• lynch go
  kill without legal sanction
  
• shoot, pip go
  kill by firing a missile
  
• fry, electrocute go
  kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair