coup de grâce

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• /kuː də ɡɹɑs/
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Late 17th century. Borrowed from French coup de grâce (“finishing blow”). Originally referring to a merciful stroke putting a fatally wounded person out of misery or to the shot delivered to the head of a prisoner after facing a firing squad.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Belarusian: удар міласэрнасці (udar milasernasci) — final blow
• Catalan: cop de gràcia — final blow
• Chinese Mandarin: 致命一擊 /致命一击 (zhìmìngyījī) — final blow
• Danish: nådestød — final blow
• Danish: dødsstød — final blow
• Dutch: genadeslag — final blow
• Esperanto: fina frapo — final blow
• Esperanto: fina bato — final blow
• Finnish: armonisku — final blow
• Finnish: armonlaukaus — final blow
• French: coup de grâce — final blow
• German: Gnadenstoß — final blow
• German: Gnadenschuss — final blow
• Greek: χαριστική βολή (charistikí volí) — final blow
• Hungarian: kegyelemdöfés — final blow
• Italian: colpo di grazia — final blow
• Japanese: とどめ (todome) — final blow
• Norwegian: nådestøt — final blow
• Norwegian: nådeskudd — final blow
• Polish: dobicie — final blow
• Portuguese: golpe de misericórdia — final blow
• Romanian: lovitură de grație — final blow
• Russian: уда́р милосе́рдия (udár milosérdija) — final blow
• Russian: после́дний уда́р (poslédnij udár) — final blow
• Russian: смерте́льный уда́р (smertélʹnyj udár) — final blow
• Sinhalese: මරු පහර (maru pahara) — final blow
• Spanish: golpe de gracia — final blow
• Spanish: tiro de gracia — final blow
• Spanish: puntilla — final blow
• Swedish: nådastöt — final blow
• Swedish: nådaskott — final blow
• Thai: ตีครั้งสุดท้าย — final blow
• Turkish: son darbe — final blow
• Turkish: öldürücü darbe — final blow