Associations to the word «Deathblow»

Wiktionary

DEATHBLOW, noun. A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace
DEATHBLOW, noun. Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence of some project etc

Dictionary definition

DEATHBLOW, noun. The blow that kills (usually mercifully).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope