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Meaning of soft kill | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The neutralization of an incoming munition by avoiding it rather than destroying it.
    uncountable
  2. A murder that does not leave behind any physical evidence, because the perpetrator carried out the crime by using their bare hands, as opposed to a weapon.
    idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“Police concluded that she had been the victim of a soft kill, since she had been strangled to death.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

soft landing soft launch soft link soft lithography soft loan soft luxury

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