put sth out of its misery
to kill an animal because it is in great pain, so that it does not have to suffer any more
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- mercy killing
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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