ppl. a. [f. KILL v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Deprived of life; put to death. Usually of meat, with qualifying word, as fresh-, country-killed, etc.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 274/2. Kyllyd, interfectus.

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1812.  Examiner, 4 Oct., 628/1. We have found here 2000 killed or amputated Russians.

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1886.  Daily News, 16 Sept., 2/5. The small supply of fresh killed meat. Ibid. (1887), 11 May, 2/6. The heaviest decline being on country-killed beef.

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  b.  with adv. (In quot. as sb.)

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1825.  Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indications (1830), 84. The deaths of Jefferies’s killed-offs were speedy.

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  2.  Of a substance: Deprived of active property.

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1894.  Bottone, Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6), 5. Chloride of zinc (killed spirits of salt). Ibid., 7. Soldering with chloride of zinc (‘killed spirits,’ ‘soldering fluid’).

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