Search Result for "mercy_killing":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness);
[syn: euthanasia, mercy killing]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mercy killing
    n 1: the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone
         suffering from an incurable illness) [syn: euthanasia,
         mercy killing]