EUTHANIZING Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

euthanizing

verb

variants also euthanatizing

present participle of euthanize

as in assassinating

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Then, a few weeks later, Israel blew up the ongoing talks by assassinating both Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas representative leading peace talks in Qatar, and Mohammed Deif, a top decision-maker inside Gaza.

— David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Attorneys at a key hearing for the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk sparred over whether a police interview should be made public, with Kirk’s family attorney saying that sealing it will only sow distrust in the justice system.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 9 July 2026

Definition of assassinating

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Evaluation frameworks, orchestration, agent definitions and business rules should evolve independently from the intelligence executing them.

— Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
But the nationwide total last year nearly doubled compared to the year prior, with 11 states executing 47 inmates – 19 of whom were in Florida, DPIC data shows.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 26 July 2026

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Kristi Noem didn’t even consult the State Department prior to terminating Haitian TPS.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026
Principal owner John Middleton recently discussed the challenging decision to dismiss longtime manager Rob Thomson, admitting that terminating employees remains the most difficult and unpleasant aspect of his executive role, even after decades.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

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Disease had significantly weakened Tenochtitlán’s ability to withstand Cortés’s siege, and the Europeans eventually wore the Aztec warriors down and broke through the city’s defenses, slaughtering the Aztecs and destroying the city.

— Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 June 2026
Later on, plundering Barbary pirates raided Mallorca, looting possessions, slaughtering inhabitants and capturing others for the slave trade.

— Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

Definition of slaughtering

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For them, putting down 10% and paying for PMI may be fine, with an eye toward refinancing in the future.

— Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
Campbell is the chief antagonist of the first two seasons of the show, and is a man who made his name brutally putting down the Irish Republican Army in Belfast before being sent to Birmingham to take on Tommy Shelby and the organized crime gangs.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026

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Two members of an Orange County street gang were found guilty of murdering a man while attempting to carry out an armed robbery under the direction of the Mexican Mafia, authorities said.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026
He was convicted of murdering six people and supervising a drug operation, receiving a sentence of life in prison.

— Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 23 July 2026

Definition of murdering

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