soft kill
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Noun[edit]
- (military) The neutralization of an incoming munition by avoiding it rather than destroying it.
- Coordinate term: hard kill
- (idiomatic) 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.
- Police concluded that she had been the victim of a soft kill, since she had been strangled to death.