Home › Words › F › fishkillfishkillfishkill means A town in New York, and a village within it.EtymologyFrom Dutch Viskil, composed of vis (“fish”) + kil (“creek”), modified or calqued based on the English cognates fish and (Dutch-origin) kill.nameA town in New York, and a village within it.nounAn environmental event in which fish are killed.e.g.“Fishkills, with some exceptions, result from low dissolved oxygen conditions accompanying the decomposition of organic materials[…]” — 1978, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 650/3, volume 3, page 11:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.winterkill 54% match — The mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal, and/or vegetal population. vs fishkill →ichthyotoxic 52% match — toxic to fish vs fishkill →piscicidal 52% match — Acting as a piscicide; fatal to fish. vs fishkill →nonfishable 49% match — Not fishable. vs fishkill →fishless 48% match — Without fish. vs fishkill →envirocrime 47% match — Criminal activity, such as pollution, that harms the environment. vs fishkill →beaching 47% match — An event in which a marine animal beaches itself. vs fishkill →fishhood 47% match — The state or condition of being a fish. vs fishkill →