If a writer kills off someone in a book, play, film, or television programme, they make them die in the story
To destroy living things so that most or all of them are dead
To stop, get rid of, or destroy something
Antibiotics may kill off beneficial bacteria.
She was killed off at the end of the second series.
The BBC has decided to kill off some of its best-loved programmes.
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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