coup de grace

1. 1.

   the blow that kills (usually mercifully)

   Synonymsdeathblow

   Broaderkilling

Questions about coup de grace

What does coup de grace mean?

coup de grace means "the blow that kills (usually mercifully)".

What is another word for coup de grace?

Close synonyms include deathblow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coup de grace a common word?

coup de grace is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.