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mercy killingnoun the act of ending the life of someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any further sufferingSome called her death a mercy killing. assisted suicide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicideblood, foul play, homicide, murder, rubout, slayingchance-medley, killing, manslaughterbloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, destruction, massacre, slaughterassassination, execution, hitfilicide, fratricide, matricide, parricide, patricide, regicide, uxoricide in 1925 |