death blow in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for death blow in the English»Serbian Dictionary

'death blow N

death blow

smrtonosan udarac m

Translations for death blow in the English»Serbian Dictionary

death [deθ] N

1. death:

death

smrt f

to be bored to death

na smrt se dosađivati

to die a natural death

umreti prirodnom smrću

to be put to death

biti usmrćen

starve to death

umreti od gladi

Phrases:

to be at death's door

biti na samrti

to be at death's door

biti jednom nogom u grobu

to be the death of sb

oterati nekoga u grob

to catch one's death [of cold]

zaraditi groznu prehladu

to look like death warmed up

izgledati kao podgrejan leš

to be in at the death Brit

prisustvovati porazu

I.blow¹ <blew, blown> [bləʊ] VB intr

1. blow wind:

blow

dunuti // duvati

an icy wind began to blow

počeo je da duva ledeni vetar

the window blew open/shut

vetar je otvorio/zatvorio prozor

2. blow (exhale):

blow

izdahnuti // izdisati

blow

ispustiti // ispuštati

3. blow esp Brit (pant):

blow

dahtati

4. blow (break):

blow fuse

izgoreti perf

blow gasket

otpustiti perf

blow fig

pobesneti perf

blow tyre

izduvati se perf

5. blow inf (leave):

blow

zbrisati perf

II.blow¹ <blew, blown> [bləʊ] VB trans

1. blow (propel):

blow

poterati // terati

blow wind

dunuti // duvati

2. blow (send):

to blow sb a kiss

poslati nekome poljubac

3. blow (play):

blow

svirati imperf duvački instrument

to blow one’s trumpet fig

hvalisati se

to blow the whistle

duvati u pištaljku

to blow the whistle fig

cinkariti

to blow the whistle (start a match)

zazviždati

to blow the whistle (stop, end a match)

odzviždati

4. blow (clear):

to blow one's nose

izduvati nos

5. blow (create):

to blow bubbles

praviti [or duvati] balone

to blow smoke rings

praviti kolutove dima

6. blow (destroy):

we blew a tyre

probušila nam se guma

I've blown a fuse

izgoreo mi je osigurač

to blow a fuse fig

pobesneti

to be blown to pieces

razneti na komade

to blow a safe [open]

otvoriti sef eksplozivom

7. blow inf (squander):

blow

proćerdati perf

blow

spiskati perf

8. blow inf (expose):

blow

otkriti // otkrivati

to be blown

biti otkriven [or provaljen]

9. blow <blowed, blowed> Brit inf (damn):

blow [it]!

dođavola!

I'll be blowed!

neka sam proklet!

I'm blowed if ...!

neka me đavo nosi ako…!

10. blow inf (bungle):

blow

pokvariti perf

blow

uprskati perf

blow² [bləʊ] N

1. blow (hit):

blow

udarac m

to come to blows over sth

potući se zbog nečega

2. blow (misfortune):

blow

nesreća f to/for - u

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

This act has given a death blow to its original appearance and the impact that it created on the minds of devotees by damaging the originality of the temple.

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This car may be the death blow we all need to end the oil industry stranglehold on the world.

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To deliver its impressive death blow, the mantis shrimp uses a hyperbolic paraboloid shaped spring.

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But we have also dealt a death blow on that.

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One of the captors was paid to deliver the king's death blow with an ax.

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That, frankly, is a death blow for us.

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The $17,000, which could have been a death blow to the institute, was written off.

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It was as he wrote in his autobiography the death blow of my career.

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But the warmer winter of 1979-80 proved to be a death blow.

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The death blow was dealt by the government itself.

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