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mercy killing

mercy killing noun: active euthanasia.

Noun

mercy killing (plural mercy killings)

  1. Active euthanasia.
  2. In sports, a premature ending of a one-sided game or contest due to a mercy rule.

mercy killing meaning in Tamil and Kannada

mercy killing in Tamil

கருணைக் கொலை

mercy killing in Kannada

ದಯಾಹತ್ಯೆ, ಕರುಣಾವಧೆ

Forms of mercy killing

pluralmercy killings
alternative formmercy-killing

Questions about mercy killing

What does mercy killing mean?
Mercy killing means active euthanasia.
What is mercy killing in Tamil?
Mercy killing in Tamil is கருணைக் கொலை. See Mercy killing meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mercy killing?
Mercy killing is a noun.
What is the plural of mercy killing?
The plural of mercy killing is mercy killings.

Words near mercy killing in the dictionary

  1. mercy flushes
  2. mercy fuck
  3. mercy fucks
  4. mercy killer
  5. mercy killers
  6. mercy killing
  7. mercy killings
  8. mercy me
  9. mercy rule
  10. mercy rules
  11. mercy sake's alive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercy killing (page history and authors); mercy killing (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mercy killing (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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