euthanizing

variants also euthanatizing
Definition of euthanizingnext
present participle of euthanize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for euthanizing
Verb
  • Attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating conservative icon Charlie Kirk, have revealed who prosecutors intend to call to the stand and also asked the court to delay the preliminary hearing.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Hezbollah, for the longest time, was strong-arming other parties, and they are accused of assassinating a former Prime Minister.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Police detained a man after executing the search warrant.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The company cited rules against apps executing unreviewed code.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Bianco’s attorney, Robert Tyler, said the sheriff had decided to wait for the courts to weigh in on the case before proceeding with the investigation or potentially terminating it, as California Atty.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • But the terms also function as thought-terminating clichés, short-circuiting the magic of the work itself.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • One thinks of the hundred brothers that Donald Antrim imagined, gathering in the ancestral home to honor their father’s memory and ritually slaughtering one of their own.
    Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Before openly slaughtering thousands of protesters last month, Iran’s leaders had rejected chance after chance to improve the lives of their own people.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • At least the episode where Judith Light’s Delia has to confront her solitude after putting down her beloved Cavapoo.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Where are members of Gen Z putting down roots?
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Talking about potential attacks, martyring themselves for ISIS.
    David J. Lopez, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • What happened Israel’s parliament on Monday gave final approval to legislation that makes death by hanging the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.
    Peter Weber, TheWeek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Israel’s parliament approved death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, making capital punishment the default sentence in military courts.
    Julia Frankel, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Euthanizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/euthanizing. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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