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mercy stroke

noun as in coup de grâce

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blow
clincher
comeuppance
deathblow
defeat
final blow
final stroke
kill
knockout
mortal blow
quietus

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Catlin and Inman and every traveller familiar with the great plains region between the Arkansas and Saskatchewan testify that the quick death of the bullet was, indeed, the mercy stroke compared to nature's end of her wild creatures.

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