MERCY KILLING as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
   Synonym(s)
   • euthanasia (what does euthanasia mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) mercy killing is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • killing (what does killing mean?)
   • kill (what does kill mean?)
   • putting to death (what does putting to death mean?)