The phrase "amount to kill" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, and without context, it is unclear what it is intended to convey.
Example: "The resources we have will amount to kill if not managed properly."
Alternatives: "lead to death" or "result in killing".
About twelve years ago, a fingernail found in one of their mittens was tested for lead and turned out to have a lot of it, but not a sufficient amount to kill someone.
The taskforce's key witness was Anderson's uncle, known as Keffe D. He claimed to be riding in the white Cadillac when Tupac was gunned down, and said Sean "Diddy" Combs offered their party $500,000 to kill Tupac, and the same amount to kill Suge Knight (but never paid them).
Critics even say the records amount to "kill lists".
"Killing and eating them amounts to killing and eating animals shockingly close to human".
That's what their particular brand of Communist revolution amounted to: killing.
But critics said the legislation amounted to killing a fly with a sledge-hammer.As a result of the law, at least 200 religious communities, including Methodists, Pentecostalists, Seventh Day Adventists, Reform Jews, Buddhists and Hindus faced a downgrading of their status.
While the administration has portrayed its drone strikes as an alternative to a broader and bloodier military campaign, years of disclosures have revealed that "targeting" has amounted to killing military-aged males carrying weapons in areas where terrorists operate.
They maintain that all embryonic stem cell research is immoral, whether on cloned or natural embryos, because it amounts to killing a person for the sake of treating other people's diseases.
Didn't they know that the creator of Islam maintained that "killing a man amounts to killing all of humanity"?
The buying and the receiving of gifts that most of us can do without, the throwing away of the wrapping paper that in each household amounts to killing a small forest.
Auburn announced that the amount of herbicide found in the soil was five hundred times the amount necessary to kill the trees.
