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单词 put someone/thing out of their misery
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put someone/thing out of their misery

1End the suffering of a person or animal in pain by killing them: I’ll send him to our ‘hospice’ tent and then I’ll put him out of his misery...
  • Sometimes it was expressed informally, as when spectators at public demonstrations quietly put the animal subjects out of their misery.
  • He says a doctor approached him, saying a hospital administrator wanted to know what he thought about putting patients out of their misery.
  • Authorities are reviewing patient records, trying to evaluate claims that he administered fatal overdoses of medication to seriously ill patients to put them out of their misery.
1.1 informal Release someone from suspense or anxiety by telling them something they are anxious to know: listeners were put out of their misery just before midday when broadcasters admitted to the April Fool...
  • Maybe I should just put them out of their misery and just tell them the truth?
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