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kil·l time

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  1. kill timeverb

    To spend time doing nothing in particular in order that it seems to pass more quickly.

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  1. Kill Time

    To kill time is to be idle.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kill time in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kill time in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of kill time in a Sentence

  1. Octavio Paz:

    We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

  2. Edward Hoagland:

    City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

  3. Dame Rose Macaulay:

    It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

  4. Henry David Thoreau:

    As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

    It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant)


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