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deathblow

NOUN
  1. the blow that kills (usually mercifully)

How To Use deathblow In A Sentence

  • He saves his arm strength and uses his horse's speed and power to inflict the deep wounds and deathblows.
  • Sometimes, indeed, a whole tragedy grows out of a single gesture; the tone in which a few words were spoken rends a whole life in two; a glance into indifferent eyes is the deathblow of the gladdest love; and, unhappily, such gestures and such words were only too familiar to A Woman of Thirty
  • Kevin's intervention in the fight enables his friend to strike the deathblow and he awards the boy his metal mask, the heirdom to the throne and his friendship.
  • 154 His "Anatomic Générale," published in 1802, gave an extraordinary stimulus to the study of the finer processes of disease, and his famous "Recherches sur la Vie et sur la Mort" (1800) dealt a deathblow to old iatromechanical and iatrochemical views. The Evolution of Modern Medicine
  • As Dooku was about to administer the deathblow, Anakin leaped forward and saved his master.
  • The phrase crashed through her mind with the force of a deathblow. The Hostage Bride
  • Wallencamp received their deathblow, and my labors, which had before been cheered by a dream of partially satisfying success, at least, took on an utterly goal-less and prosaical form. Cape Cod Folks
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