deathblow

[ deth-bloh ]

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noun

a blow causing death.

Origin of deathblow

First recorded in 1785–95; death + blow¹

Words Nearby deathblow

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How to use deathblow in a sentence

The soldier implored Usama for amnesty just as Usama prepared to deliver the deathblow.
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Taken together, this legal wrangling could be a deathblow to the company that once ruled the Internet.
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This fearful war was a deathblow to your father's sanguine hopes of making a rapid fortune.
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The story to which two little words, yes or no, ends so ecstatically, or gives the deathblow.
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In the long reign of his son Manasseh later writers saw the deathblow to the Judaean kingdom.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4 | Various

This was practically the deathblow to the Anglo-Castilian marriage.
Mary Tudor, Queen of France | Mary Croom Brown
Two days later, he gave to the country the expressive phrase "contraband of war," which proved the deathblow of American slavery.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume I. No. VI. June, 1884 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for deathblow

deathblow

/ (ˈdɛθˌbləʊ) /

noun

a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly

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