a coup de grâce

a coup de grace

(formal)

an action or event which ends or destroys something that is gradually becoming worse Jane's affair delivered the coup de grace to her failing marriage.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Josefiina	YO-se-fee:-nah	Finnish
Paulo	-	Portuguese, Galician
Tatyana	tah-TYAH-nah	Russian
GÁSpÁR	-	Hungarian
Akilah	-	Arabic
Tim	TIM (English, German, Dutch, Slovene)	English, German, Dutch, Slovene, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish