humanely destroy
Frequency: 4.01.5 per million words
to kill an animal without causing it pain
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- If an animal is suffering with no hope of recovery, it is kinder to humanely destroy it.
- The stray dog was too ill to be treated and had to be humanely destroyed.
- The vet recommended that we humanely destroy our beloved cat to end his pain.
- Wildlife officials will humanely destroy the injured deer found by the roadside.
- Our farm has a strict protocol to humanely destroy any livestock that is critically ill.
- The practice of humanely destroying animals is a necessary but difficult part of veterinary medicine.
- The law requires that all surplus laboratory animals are humanely destroyed.
- After the accident, the farmer made the tough choice to humanely destroy the horse with the broken leg.
- Is there a way to humanely destroy these invasive pests without harming the ecosystem?
- The procedure to humanely destroy an animal is designed to be quick and painless.