deathblow
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- noun
- /ˈdɛθˌbloʊ/
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golpe mortal
- Of course, a slight decrease in loyalty is far from a deathblow to Apple and the iPhone.
- delivering a deathblow
- dealt a deathblow
Examples
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And by the way, if we did shift, it would delay us somewhere between a year or two at the 3GPP conference and delay us getting into the marketplace, which would probably be a deathblow to what we're trying to do.
Blog text (11) -
That was nearly a deathblow.
Fiction book (1995) -
What a deathblow to this great ship.
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The truth that you will not hear: we have been hit by an economic deathblow, and the United States lies in ruins.
Blog text (4) -
Crucially, not a Siren must manually Click to stop singing before the Chinese team can enact their deathblow and take the team fight.
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But its opposition to the Communal Award caused a deathblow to its popularity among the Muslims because the urban members in Congress outweighed the rural members in the Punjab.
Academic text (2018) -
Not in tonnage destroyed, or star systems conquered, but in something far more precious because it was intangible, for they had delivered a potential deathblow to the terror of omnipotence, which was so much a part of State Security's repressive arsenal.
Fiction book (2001) -
The warrior delivered a deathblow to the dragon, finally ending its reign of terror.
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After a long battle, the hero struck the beast with a deathblow, bringing peace to the village.
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The final act of mercy was to give him a deathblow to end his suffering.
Synonyms
A final action that ends something, often to stop suffering
A bell rung to announce someone's death
Idioms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word deathblow is a simple compound: death, which means 'the end of life', and blow, which means 'a strong hit'. It originally meant a hit that 'kills', so today deathblow can also mean a final act or 'final defeat' that ends something, like a battle, a person's suffering, or a company.