Usually means: Ending life to alleviate suffering.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word mercy killing:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercy killing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mercy killing: Merriam-Webster
  3. mercy killing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mercy killing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mercy killing: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mercy killing: Vocabulary.com
  7. mercy killing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mercy-killing, mercy killing: Wiktionary
  9. mercy killing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mercy killing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mercy killing: Dictionary.com
  12. Mercy killing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. mercy killing: Rhymezone
  14. mercy killing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. mercy killing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. mercy killing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercy killing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Mercy-killing, mercy killing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mercy-killing, mercy killing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mercy killing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mercy killing: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. Mercy-killing, mercy killing: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mercy killing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mercy_killings as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mercy killing)

noun:  Active euthanasia.
noun:  (sports) In sports, a premature ending of a one-sided game or contest due to a mercy rule.

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