euthanizing

verb

variants also euthanatizing
present participle of euthanize
as in assassinating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for euthanizing
  1. assassinating
  2. executing
  3. terminating
  4. slaughtering
  5. putting down
  6. martyring
  7. murdering
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  • Utah prosecutors are turning up the heat on Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, arguing that the evidence against him easily meets the standard required to send the case to trial.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
  • Ferrell instead starred as the villainous mogul Jacobim Mugatu, who attempts to brainwash Derek into assassinating the prime minister of Malaysia.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
Definition of assassinating
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  • Smaller teams of high-agency engineers and builders are managing fleets of agents rather than executing every task by hand.
    — Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Hugging Face, for its part, published a forensic timeline, describing how the autonomous AI system spent four and a half days executing 17,600 distinct hacking actions across multiple organizations — without direct involvement by any humans.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of executing
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  • This follows a court settlement terminating SAVE, pushing borrowers into costlier alternative plans.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • The school district is terminating Horner, and called the allegations deeply disturbing.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Definition of terminating
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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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  • As Andoni said himself, this is about putting down the foundations for the season.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 30 July 2026
  • Broady’s timeline was laid out pretty linearly for her from when Disney World allows people to reserve their trips by putting down $200.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Definition of putting down
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  • Talking about potential attacks, martyring themselves for ISIS.
    — David J. Lopez, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Definition of martyring
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  • Their son pleaded guilty in October 2022 to murdering four students and injuring several others in the November 2021 shooting at Oxford High School and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 30 July 2026
  • On that Sabbath morning, a gunman shot his way into the synagogue, shouting antisemitic invective and murdering 11 worshipers from the three congregations sharing the building — Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life.
    — Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026
Definition of murdering
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“Euthanizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/euthanizing. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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