killable


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killable

(ˈkɪləbəl)
adj
1. (Agriculture) suitable for being killed
2. capable of being killed
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Adj.1.killable - fit to kill, especially for food
comestible, eatable, edible - suitable for use as food
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You want to save that first hunt for the time when the bucks are at least somewhat killable. So, you have to play the game very conservatively in October.
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The "non-man" is often represented as an animalized human, that is, a human in the form of a beast whose sole identity is that it is "killable." Geller calls this the "Jew-Animal," and he devotes his book, as he says, to showing how Jewish-identified authors in modern German-speaking territories--he devotes most of his pages to Heinrich Heine and Franz Kafka--substitute the "Jew-as-Animal" for the "Jew-Animal." (27)
'When I was a commander, I consider that offense as killable. I told my people do not lie to me.
These hacks would assist the players to have impeccable aim as long as enemies enter their sights but is still killable if other players can get a drop on them.
The Protocol establishes three categories of killable babies:
But if you can key in on a buck that is frequenting a camera site within an hour before shooting light in the morning or an hour after it ends in the evening, he'll eventually be killable.
Self-control and self-policing are required to diminish the likelihood of a "killable life" in the favela, where there are many nervous hands and easy access to objects that cut, injure, and kill.
Additionally, only one killable courier instead of five invincible are enabled.
Moreover, delays themselves owe to uneven geographies of power, as subjects' wait times in the waiting room are themselves based on geopolitical interests and necropolitical logics that produce some populations as subjects of life and others as prematurely killable or already dead.
We just kept pushing, and on the 12th day of the hunt we got on a killable ram.
By taking his reader into the interior life of even the most seemingly insignificant members of this neglected community, Warren subverts the idea that any place, society, ecosystem, or individual being is displaceable or "killable." Warren enlivens this forgotten community with an array of rich personalities and personal histories, highlighting the tragedy that these lives will be all but erased once the Tennessee Valley Authority "pulls the plug." If, as Calvin Fiddler puts it, "you are you in Fiddlersburg" (289), for people like the blind Leontine Purtle, eccentric Mrs.