Sometimes, in your system some applications becomes unresponsive and unexpectedly crashes. Even after starting again it will not work because of the application process not shuts down completely. In such situation, you need to stop or terminate the process or kill the application process. In Linux, you can kill the process using multiple ways. This
Kill Command in Linux
Kill command is a built in command in Linux which is used to terminate the process manually. This is commonly happening like, some applications may become unresponsive or start consuming a lot of system resources. In such situation the only solution is to either restart the system or kill the application process. You can terminate