put some creature out of its misery

to kill an animal in a humane manner. (See also put one out of one's misery.) The vet put that dog with cancer out of its misery. Please, put my sick goldfish out of its misery.

See also: creature, misery, of, out, put

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Floy	[flɔi]
Deepa	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil
Gjergj	-	Albanian
Gunda	GUWN-dah (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Ancient Germanic
Vilen	vee-LYEN	Russian
Seth (1)	SETH (English)	English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek