Benefit and Mercy

Benefit

Benefit noun - Something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing.

Usage example: the meal service is a great benefit to invalids and the elderly

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Mercy and benefit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mercy" instead a noun "Benefit".

Mercy noun - An act of kind assistance.

Usage example: did a mercy for the stranded motorist and was richly rewarded

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Benefit and mercy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Benefit" instead a noun "Mercy".

Nearby Words: merciful, mercifully, mercer

human	human benefit	human mercy
good	good benefit	good mercy
special	special benefit	special mercy
dubious	dubious benefit	dubious mercy
Other adjectives: small, actual, distinct, real, great, little, slight, personal, sole, apparent, few, less, unexpected, slightest.

Askeladd himself offers to let Thorfinn Mercy Kill him after he's stabbed fatally by Canute, more for Thorfinn's benefit than his own since he knows he's bleeding out anyway.

Source: Mercy Kill
Jia Chong repeatedly takes action to benefit Sima Zhao, usually without bothering to check with him first, and is particularly swift to kill off enemies that Sima Zhao seems inclined to offer mercy to.

Source: Poisonous Friend
What they haven't figured out is how Samus comes out in one piece; all their test subjects are reduced to candy-coated Pirate Nuggets with crunchy bits in their gooey centers, and the ones who survive the experience would generally benefit more from a mercy killing than medical attention.

Source: Creative Sterility

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