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Origin of deathblowFirst recorded in 1785–95; death + blow1 Words nearby deathblowdeath anxiety, deathbed, death bell, death benefit, Death, be not proud, deathblow, death camass, death camp, death cap, death care, death cell Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for deathblowThe soldier implored Usama for amnesty just as Usama prepared to deliver the deathblow. Prophet Muhammad’s Rules of War|Qasim Rashid|November 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST Taken together, this legal wrangling could be a deathblow to the company that once ruled the Internet. Antitrust Suit Could Bring Down Google|Dan Lyons|April 27, 2012|DAILY BEAST Then alighting on a rock and holding by a projection, he gave the monster his deathblow. The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)|Charles Mills Gayley It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories|Paul Laurence Dunbar
And he got his deathblow on the slope of that same Capitol where Gracchus and Manlius had died before him, each in good cause. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2|Francis Marion Crawford As the lightning from a clear sky, so was the deathblow given to the pride and strength of the quinquereme. Ulric the Jarl|William O. Stoddard But, peace restored, and the deathblow given to treason, the work of reform will commence. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863|Various
British Dictionary definitions for deathblow
nouna thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to deathblowculmination, closer, finisher, coup de grace, clincher, knockout, end-all, tiebreaker, apocalypse, bane, doom, fate, quietus, cutoff, death knell, end point, capper, finishing touch, blow, comeuppance |