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Meanings of deathblow in English

Catalan
cop de gràcia
Spanish
golpe de gracia

The blow that kills (usually mercifully)

cop de gràcia
Usage of deathblow in English
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It feels like a deathblow to having my say in SA's future.
The South African
2
Then, as now, doomsayers foresaw a deathblow to the UN climate negotiations.
The Guardian
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The deathblow had struck him, but he must die on his feet.
Greifenstein
4
Put foes in slo-mo while you spin around to deal a deathblow.
Wired
5
But that stroke from the shark's tail could have been his deathblow.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
6
That terrible morning gave the deathblow to the mighty monarchy of the Bourbons.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1...
7
Monarchy, aristocracy, and Federalism, it was said, had received a deathblow.
A Brief History of the United States
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Finally, he sensed her whole body change, and she coiled for the final deathblow.
Navigators of Dune
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Whatever it was, the tsunami was only the final deathblow.
Shadow zone
10
Hurry is the deathblow to calmness, to dignity, to poise.
The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities
11
Kant's theory that we can know nothing beyond ourselves gave the deathblow to philosophy.
Beulah
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She had delivered the deathblow, crashing the sled into the creature, breaking its back.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
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Strike such a deathblow to her loving heart as Claudia had stricken to his?
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
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The first cut with the sword had utterly disabled it; the second was its deathblow.
In the Heart of Africa
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It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow.
Catching Fire
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The voice holds the almost indifferent calm of an assassin ready to deliver the deathblow.
Grand junction
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Translations for deathblow
Deathblow through the time
Deathblow across language varieties
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