death blow in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for death blow in the English»French Dictionary

death [Brit dɛθ, Am dɛθ] N

à sa mort

See also thousand

I.thousand [Brit ˈθaʊz(ə)nd, Am ˈθaʊz(ə)nd] N (figure)

III.thousand [Brit ˈθaʊz(ə)nd, Am ˈθaʊz(ə)nd] ADJ

IV.thousand [Brit ˈθaʊz(ə)nd, Am ˈθaʊz(ə)nd]

I.blow [Brit bləʊ, Am bloʊ] N

II.blow <pret blew, pp blown> [Brit bləʊ, Am bloʊ] VB trans

12. blow Am (exaggerate) → blow up

III.blow <pret blew, pp blown> [Brit bləʊ, Am bloʊ] VB intr

See also blow up

I.blow up VB [Brit bləʊ -, Am bloʊ -] (blow up)

II.blow up VB [Brit bləʊ -, Am bloʊ -] (blow [sth/sb] up, blow up [sb/sth]) (in explosion)

III.blow up VB [Brit bləʊ -, Am bloʊ -] (blow [sth] up, blow up [sth])

death blow in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for death blow in the English»French Dictionary

I.blow1 <blew, -n> [bləʊ, Am bloʊ] VB intr

III.blow1 [bləʊ, Am bloʊ] N

I.blow2 [bləʊ, Am bloʊ] N a. fig

II.blow2 <blew, -n> [bləʊ, Am bloʊ] VB intr (explode)

American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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It was as he wrote in his autobiography the death blow of my career.
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No, the death blow came from a senator.
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The $17,000, which could have been a death blow to the institute, was written off.
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He has given me my death blow.
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Frustrated of lack of work he threatened to resign from service as he felt that it was a death blow to his pursuit.
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To deliver its impressive death blow, the mantis shrimp uses a hyperbolic paraboloid shaped spring.
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The death blow was dealt by the government itself.
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Like all measures and controls, they have the power to deliver a death blow to cultural aspirations and shape an alternate, unsolicited organisational behaviour.
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But the warmer winter of 1979-80 proved to be a death blow.
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But we have also dealt a death blow on that.
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