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Humanely

//hjuːˈmeɪn.li// adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a humane manner.

    "The study was approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of the University of Florida and the tortoise was humanely euthanized with an overdose of sodium pentobarbital performed by intracoelomatic injection [34 ]."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a humane manner wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English humanly; equivalent to humane + -ly. Piecewise doublet of humanly.

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