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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
euthanize .
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Examples
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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.
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I think that the two dogs should be euthanized, which is what I understand they are planning to do.
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Not euthanized, which is a mercy term, but killed.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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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
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Not euthanized, which is a mercy term, but killed.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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