'Quietus' definitions:
Definition of 'quietus'
From: WordNet
noun
Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus]
Definition of 'Quietus'
From: GCIDE
- Quietus \Qui*e"tus\, n. [LL. quietus quit, discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See Quiet, a., and cf. Quit, a.] Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. [1913 Webster]
- When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'quietus'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolution,
- acquittal,
- acquittance,
- annihilation,
- apodosis,
- bane,
- beating,
- biological death,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- cessation of life,
- clearance,
- clearing,
- clincher,
- clinical death,
- coda,
- collapse,
- compurgation,
- conclusion,
- conquering,
- conquest,
- consummation,
- crack of doom,
- crash,
- crossing the bar,
- crusher,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- death knell,
- death stroke,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- defeat,
- demise,
- denouement,
- departure,
- destigmatization,
- destigmatizing,
- destination,
- destiny,
- destruction,
- discharge,
- disculpation,
- dismissal,
- dissolution,
- doom,
- downfall,
- drubbing,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- effect,
- end,
- end of life,
- end point,
- end-all,
- ender,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- eschatology,
- eternal rest,
- exculpation,
- excuse,
- exit,
- exoneration,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- failure,
- fall,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final stroke,
- final summons,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finger of death,
- finis,
- finish,
- finisher,
- finishing stroke,
- forgiveness,
- goal,
- going,
- going off,
- grave,
- hand of death,
- hiding,
- izzard,
- jaws of death,
- kayo,
- kayo punch,
- knell,
- knockout,
- knockout blow,
- KO,
- lambasting,
- last,
- last breath,
- last dab,
- last debt,
- last gasp,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- lathering,
- latter end,
- leaving life,
- licking,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- mastery,
- omega,
- overcoming,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- pardon,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- payoff,
- period,
- perishing,
- peroration,
- purgation,
- purging,
- quittance,
- release,
- remission,
- resolution,
- rest,
- resting place,
- reward,
- ruin,
- sentence of death,
- settler,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- silence,
- sleep,
- smash,
- sockdolager,
- somatic death,
- stoppage,
- stopper,
- stopping place,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjugation,
- summons of death,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- trouncing,
- undoing,
- vanquishment,
- verdict of acquittal,
- vindication,
- Waterloo,
- whipping,
- windup,
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