Meaning of soft kill | Babel Free

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.”

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