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say it: yoo-thuh-NAY-zhuh
euthanasia is a noun meaning "the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for euthanasia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.