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View synonyms for deathblow

deathblow

[ deth-bloh ]

noun

  1. a blow causing death.


deathblow

/ ˈdɛθˌbləʊ /

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of deathblow1

First recorded in 1785–95; death + blow 1

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Example Sentences

The soldier implored Usama for amnesty just as Usama prepared to deliver the deathblow.

Taken together, this legal wrangling could be a deathblow to the company that once ruled the Internet.

This fearful war was a deathblow to your father's sanguine hopes of making a rapid fortune.

The story to which two little words, yes or no, ends so ecstatically, or gives the deathblow.

In the long reign of his son Manasseh later writers saw the deathblow to the Judaean kingdom.

This was practically the deathblow to the Anglo-Castilian marriage.

Two days later, he gave to the country the expressive phrase "contraband of war," which proved the deathblow of American slavery.

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