docs/compose/reference/kill.md

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Usage: kill [options] [SERVICE...]

Options:
    -s SIGNAL         SIGNAL to send to the container.
                      Default signal is SIGKILL.

Forces running containers to stop by sending a SIGKILL signal. Optionally the signal can be passed, for example:

docker-compose kill -s SIGINT