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Coup De Grace

Definition: Coup De Grace

Coup De Grace

Noun

1. The blow that kills (usually mercifully).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Coup De Grace

Domain	Definition
Literature	Coup de Grace The finishing stroke. When criminals were tortured by the wheel or otherwise, the executioner gave him a coup de grâce, or blow on the head or breast, to put him out of his misery. "The Turks dealt the coup de grâce to the Eastern empire."- Times. The following is taken from a note (chap. xxx.) of Sir W. Scott's novel The Betrothed. "This punishment [being broken on the wheel] consists in the executioner, with a bar of iron, breaking the shoulder-bones, arms, thigh-bones, and legs- taking alternate sides. The punishment is concluded by a blow across the breast, called the coup de grâce, or blow of mercy because it removes the sufferer from his agony. Mandrin, the celebrated smuggler, while in the act of being thus tortured, tells us that the sensibility of pain never continues after the nervous system has been shattered by the first blow." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Coup De Grace

Synonym: deathblow (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Coup De Grace

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Completion	Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli.
End	Break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager.
Killing	Deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution. (capital punishment); judicial murder; martyrdom.
Punishment	Lash, scaffold; (instrument of punishment); imprisonment; (restraint); transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys; beating;Verb: flagellation, fustigation, gantlet, strappado, estrapade, bastinado, argumentum baculinum, stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow; (impulse); stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Coup De Grace

English words defined with "coup de grace": Grace stroke. (references)

Commercial Usage: Coup De Grace

Domain	Title
Books	Alexis Ou Le Traite Du Vain Combat, Le Coup de Grace (reference) Coup De Grace (reference) (more book examples) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Coup De Grace [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Coup De Grace

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Coup de grace. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coup De Grace

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
coup de grace	12
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Modern Translation: Coup De Grace

Language		Translations for "coup de grace"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		armonisku (finishing blow). (various references)

Manx		builley baaish (death blow, mortal blow). (various references)

Pig Latin		oupcay eday acegray

Russian		завершающий смертельный удар. (various references)

Turkish		son darbe (settler), öldürücü darbe (death blow, deathblow, killer, quietus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Coup De Grace

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-g-o-p-r-u"
	-2 letters: decoupage.
	-3 letters: recouped.
	-4 letters: acceder, accrued, capered, coerced, cordage, courage, grouped, preaged, precode, proceed, produce, pugaree, recoupe, upgrade.
	-5 letters: accede, accord, accrue, aerugo, agreed, apercu, apogee, argued, cadger, carped, codger, coerce, cougar, couped, craped, creped, croupe, decare, dogear, dragee, drogue, geared, gourde, graced, groped, ocreae, pardee, parged, peaced, perdue, poured, pugree, pureed, purged, reaped.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams

9. Bibliography

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