Sentence examples for bump off from inspiring English sources

The phrase "bump off" can be used in written English.
It is an informal phrase that means to kill someone. For example, "The mobsters wanted to bump off their rival gang leader."

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bump off

verb

To kill, especially to murder.

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Why didn't Javadi just bump off Akbari himself?

Would you bump off a relative for a good cause?

To make room for new destinations, it has to bump off old ones.

The holder of any sort of priority can "bump off" anybody without a priority.

The C.I.A. once planned to bump off Fidel Castro by passing him an exploding cigar.

"This shift is going to bump off as many retailers as the last.

A variant of this theory has him as a disposable stooge in a plot to bump off Mr Putin.

It would have been very dangerous for Kepler to bump off his chief sponsor for the job".

Nor is it sufficiently appalling for Garance (Sarah Roy) to bump off her randomly selected housewife victims.

Incidentally, what a bravura (or maybe daft) plot twist to bump off four characters just as they were getting established.

This is a show willing to bump off Michael Gambon and Stanley Tucci within minutes of each other, let's remember.

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