Noun
death blow (plural death blows)
Alternative form of deathblow
These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out. Emily Greene Balch
Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow. Bernard Membe
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. Vladimir Lenin
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. Louis Kronenberger
The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental - can provide the occasion to deal a death blow to democracy. Timothy D. Snyder