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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of euthanize.

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Examples

  • I won't use the term euthanized, which implies a humane death, and I can say that based on his description, at least a number of dogs did not have a humane death.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • I think that the two dogs should be euthanized, which is what I understand they are planning to do.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2007 2007

  • Not euthanized, which is a mercy term, but killed.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • As for Terry Schiavo, she was euthanized, which is a position consistent with not allowing embryonic stem cell research.

    Think Progress » Limbaugh on Michael J. Fox: ‘I Take Back None of What I Said’ 2006

  • Not euthanized, which is a mercy term, but killed.

    Successful Results of the Mayor Daniel Blog 2006

  • The animal shelter said about 14 percent of all the dogs taken in this year, have been euthanized, which is lower than the state average, 10TV News reported.

    10tv.com: RSS online@10tv.com 2010

  • The animal shelter said about 14 percent of all the dogs taken in this year, have been euthanized, which is lower than the state average, 10TV News reported.

    10tv.com: RSS online@10tv.com 2010

  • That sounds too much like sense, though, so the state will spend gobs of money for an ineffectual solution that will probably require the hides of any "euthanized" snakes to be discarded.

    On Hunting Pythons in Florida 2009

  • That sounds too much like sense, though, so the state will spend gobs of money for an ineffectual solution that will probably require the hides of any "euthanized" snakes to be discarded.

    On Hunting Pythons in Florida 2009

  • I should be dead, somewhere: shot in the back of the head, lined up against the wall, gassed in an alley, or otherwise "euthanized" like all those people on the 9/11 planes that never really hit anything at all.

    Summer's Almost Over - Why Aren't We Dead? 2009

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