euthanasia mercy killing | the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness) |
clemency mercifulness mercy | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice, he threw himself on the mercy of the court |
mercy | alleviation of distress, showing great kindness toward the distressed, distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy |
mercy seat | the golden covering of the ark of the covenant |
mercy seat | the throne of God |
mercifulness mercy | a disposition to be kind and forgiving, in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband |
worse | something inferior in quality or condition or effect, for better or for worse, accused of cheating and lying and worse |
mercifulness mercy | the feeling that motivates compassion |
mercy | something for which to be thankful, it was a mercy we got out alive |
get worse relapse | deteriorate in health, he relapsed |
worse | (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability, this road is worse than the first one we took, the road is in worse shape than it was, she was accused of worse things than cheating and lying |
worse worsened | changed for the worse in health or fitness, I feel worse today, her cold is worse |
wholly entirely completely totally all altogether whole | to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'), he was wholly convinced, entirely satisfied with the meal, it was completely different from what we expected, was completely at fault, a totally new situation, the directions were all wrong, it was not altogether her fault, an altogether new approach, a whole new idea |
absolutely perfectly utterly dead d | completely and without qualification, used informally as intensifiers, an absolutely magnificent painting, a perfectly idiotic idea, you're perfectly right, utterly miserable, you can be dead sure of my innocence, was dead tired, dead right |
worse ,u n | (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner, he did worse on the second exam |
completely | so as to be complete, with everything necessary, he had filled out the form completely, the apartment was completely furnished |