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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
soft kill en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The neutralization of an incoming munition by avoiding it rather than destroying it.
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(idiomatic, uncountable) A murder that does not leave behind any physical evidence, because the perpetrator carried out the crime by using their bare hands, as opposed to a weapon.
Police concluded that she had been the victim of a soft kill, since she had been strangled to death.
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Coordinates
hard kill