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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of euthanize.

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Examples

  • As outlined in a Sun story by Don Peat this week, Toronto Animal Services -- set up to replace the THS for animal control -- is virtually a killing machine that "euthanizes" over half the animals that fall into its clutches.

    Toronto Sun 2009

  • This is interesting coming from an organization that regularly "euthanizes" animals.

    Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher 2009

  • They are an economic means that has provided for him, and also a group he has come to admire and respect, the same way a beef provider admires cows or a worker at an animal shelter that euthanizes dogs loves dogs.

    James McBride discusses Song Yet Sung 2010

  • PETA euthanizes animals so why should we listen to them.

    KFC tortures chickens!!! | My[confined]Space 2009

  • A novel he wrote some years earlier -- about a man who euthanizes his terminally ill wife to spare her pain -- has caught the fancy of Hitler and Goebbels.

    Marshall Fine: Review: Good -- Reflecting the Bush years 2010

  • A novel he wrote some years earlier -- about a man who euthanizes his terminally ill wife to spare her pain -- has caught the fancy of Hitler and Goebbels.

    Review: Good -- Reflecting the Bush years 2010

  • When Senator Obama becomes our next President, we must insist that, along with Congress, he acts to reverse this dangerous trend, as well as euthanizes that pernicious piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, which will someday be known as the great purge of the U.S. Constitution

    Domestic Terrorism or Dissent? 2010

  • When Senator Obama becomes our next President, we must insist that, along with Congress, he acts to reverse this dangerous trend, as well as euthanizes that pernicious piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, which will someday be known as the great purge of the U.S.

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: Domestic Terrorism or Dissent? Jayne Lyn Stahl 2010

  • The challenge for lawmakers is setting up a process that euthanizes a failing entity in a way that doesn't create moral hazard but also doesn't set off a wider banking panic.

    Bank Brawl Gets Creative 2010

  • When Senator Obama becomes our next President, we must insist that, along with Congress, he acts to reverse this dangerous trend, as well as euthanizes that pernicious piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, which will someday be known as the great purge of the U.S. Constitution

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: Domestic Terrorism or Dissent? 2010

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