Quietus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUIETUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a final settlement
• death or something that causes death, regarded as a release from life.
• something that has a calming or soothing effect.
• euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
• release from life
ADJECTIVE:
• Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

Words related to QUIETUS

quietuses18

Words that contain QUIETUS

quietuses18

How to use QUIETUS in a sentence

• The panic of 1857, soon followed by the great Civil war, put a quietus on immigration, and left him stranded high on the beach.
• Before the final quietus came to him, there were several occasions on which the Black dog, called Death, had almost caught him in his jaws.
• Lucius Quietus retook Nisibis, and plundered and burnt Edessa.
• Even if such were the fact, he counted upon a desperate resistance, and was prepared to give the fellow his quietus by a shot from his rifle.
• The dogma was simply declared in 1870, and that put a quietus to all Catholic scruples.
• He slipped another cartridge into the rifle and gave the bear her quietus by hitting her right behind the shoulder and striking her heart.
• The executioner, armed with a long-handled, slender hammer, and sitting astride of the fence, gives to each of these yelling creatures his quietus by a blow upon the head.
• Then came the hunter and gave the bear his quietus.
• Cilo himself they conducted along the Sacred Way, making the palace their destination, where they prepared to give him his quietus.
• The death of Montgomery and the discomfiture of Benedict Arnold, which really gave a quietus to the success of the expedition, did not suffice to crush it.
• But he was compelled to use every bullet in his six-shot repeater before the giant received his quietus, and rolled over, to rise no more.
• All alone in a great case by itself was pinned the purple emperor, the Apatura Iris, that fatal specimen that had given the Purple Emperor his name and quietus.
• Many believed that the bill had received a quietus for the session.

Similar words containing QUIETU without suffix s

quietude18 quietudes19 quietuses18 inquietude20 disquietude22 inquietudes21 disquietudes23

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