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deathblow

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death·blow  (dthbl)
n.
1. A stroke or blow that causes death.
2. A destructive event or occurrence: dealt a deathblow to our hopes.
deathblow
Noun
a thing or event that destroys hope
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Noun1.deathblow - the blow that kills (usually mercifully)
coup de grace
kill, putting to death, killing - the act of terminating a life
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Our hopes had received such a deathblow that the gradually increasing heat seemed to our distorted imaginations much greater than it really was.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
That voice, although accentuated by menace, recalled to him another voice, which, that very morning, had dealt the deathblow to his mystery, by drawling, nasally, in the midst of the audience, "Charity, please
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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