put someone out of their misery (English, verb)
expansion: put someone out of their misery (third-person singular simple present puts someone out of their misery, present participle putting someone out of their misery, simple past and past participle put someone out of their misery)
Senses:
glosses: To submit a suffering person or an animal to euthanasia.
tags: idiomatic
informal
transitive
glosses: To end or destroy something for the good of the individuals involved in it.
tags: figuratively
idiomatic
informal
transitive
glosses: To relieve somebody's anxiety by supplying information that they wanted to know.
tags: idiomatic
informal
transitive
Forms:
form: puts someone out of their misery
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: putting someone out of their misery
tags: participle
present
form: put someone out of their misery
tags: participle
past
form: put someone out of their misery
tags: past