• v.
    ⦿put (an animal) to death
    lexical concept
  • The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid
  • the sick cat had to be put down

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:destroy
  2. enl:put down
wn:interlingual indexili:i28316

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeldestroyput down