Usually means: Fatal strike ending opponent's life.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. deathblow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deathblow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. deathblow: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deathblow: Vocabulary.com
  5. deathblow: Wordnik
  6. deathblow: Wiktionary
  7. deathblow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. deathblow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. deathblow: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Deathblow, deathblow: Dictionary.com
  11. Deathblow (comics), Deathblow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Deathblow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. deathblow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. deathblow: Rhymezone
  15. Deathblow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. deathblow: Free Dictionary
  17. deathblow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. deathblow: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deathblow: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deathblow)

noun:  A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace.
noun:  (figurative) Something that prevents the completion, or ends the existence, of a project etc.; a fatal setback.

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