JLPT N3 Vocabulary

殺す（ころす）

to kill

Reading: ころす
Sino-Vietnamese: sát
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Transitive verb: 人を殺す, 虫を殺す. The corresponding intransitive verb is 死ぬ. Also has figurative meanings: 声を殺す (to hold back one's voice), 時間を殺す (to kill time). The noun 殺人 means murder.

Examples

彼は自分の家で殺された。He was killed in his own house.
蚊を殺すために殺虫剤を使った。I used insecticide to kill the mosquitoes.

Easily confused with

死ぬ
殺人
倒す
亡くす

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殺す（ころす）

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