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kayo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun kayo has 1 sense
- kayo(n = noun.act) knockout, ko - a blow that renders the opponent unconscious; Array has particulars: technical knockout, tko
is a kind of blow
Verb kayo has 1 sense
- kayo(v = verb.contact) knock cold, knock out - knock unconscious or senseless; "the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds" is one way to beat, beat up, work over
Sample sentence:
They want to kayo the prisoners
OXFORD DICTIONARY
kayo, v. & n. colloq.
--v.tr. (-oes, -oed) knock out; stun by a blow.
--n. (pl. -os) a knockout.
--v.tr. (-oes, -oed) knock out; stun by a blow.
--n. (pl. -os) a knockout.
Etymology
repr. pronunc. of KO
THESAURUS
kayo
Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, anesthetize, ascendancy, bedaze, benumb, besot, blackout, blunt, call off, cancel, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, championship, chloroform, clincher, coldcock, coma, complete, conquest, cook, crusher, deaden, death stroke, deathblow, defeat, delete, desensitize, dish, dispose of, do for, do in, dope, drop the curtain, drug, dull, easy victory, end off, end-all, ender, etherize, expunge, extinguish, faint, final stroke, finalize, finish, finisher, finishing stroke, fix, fold up, freeze, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the quietus, grand slam, grayout, kayo punch, kibosh, kill, knock out, knock senseless, knock stiff, knock unconscious, knockout, knockout blow, landslide, landslide victory, last dab, lay out, lipothymia, lipothymy, mastery, moral victory, narcotize, nirvana, nirvana principle, nothingness, numb, oblivion, obliviousness, obtund, palsy, paralyze, perfect, picnic, polish off, pushover, put paid to, put to sleep, quietus, runaway victory, scrag, scuttle, semiconsciousness, senselessness, settle, settler, shoot down, sink, sleep, sockdolager, stopper, stun, stupefy, stupor, subdual, subduing, success, swoon, syncope, torpedo, total victory, triumph, unconsciousness, undo, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, winning, winning streak, wipe out, zap
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