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quietus

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7 lettersPronunciation /kwaɪˈiːtəs/Part of speech nounSorted eiqstuuStarts with QEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

Used in a sentence

  • Olive's specific terrors and dangers had by this time very much blown over; Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.
  • The very unromantically accoutred form of a keen-visaged, middle-aged female, padding heavily in bedroom slippers along the garden walk, gave its quietus to the situation.
  • When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?

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