Definitions for deathblow

deathblow death·blow

Spelling: [deth-bloh]
IPA: /ˈdɛθˌbloʊ/

Deathblow is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in deathblow (abdehlotw).

Definitions for deathblow

noun

  1. a blow causing death.

Origin of deathblow

First recorded in 1785-95; death + blow1

Examples for deathblow

This was practically the deathblow to the Anglo-Castilian marriage.

The soldier implored Usama for amnesty just as Usama prepared to deliver the deathblow.

This was the deathblow to the whole system, which had now got into the hands of its enemies.

Unfortunately that proved the deathblow of the old Agricultural Society.

Then after he had stopped the speed of his skees, he turned back and gave him his deathblow.

Taken together, this legal wrangling could be a deathblow to the company that once ruled the Internet.

The marriage with Cleves was the deathblow to the power of the Empire.

The first cut with the sword had utterly disabled it; the second was its deathblow.

That their destruction was believed to be a deathblow is evident from Thucydides.

That was a deathblow to French settlements in the middle west.

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