quietus

1 The “free-silver delusion” is not dead, nor will it die unless the McKinley administration shall give it its quietus by providing the country with a sound and popular system of bimetallism.

2 It was in this room that Pedlar Jake got his quietus.

3 If Berryman is playing Cassandra to himself, crying out the details of his own quietus, how did the cry begin?

4 In fact, the Elmdale tragedy received its quietus when James Walker, senior, and James Walker, junior, watched Sir Robert and Lady Dalrymple drive past their office en route to Paris and the Continent.

5 Instead, it was a much quicker quietus after 19.

6 The Masterson affair had effectually put a quietus upon his belligerency.

7 Differs from L. quietus in brighter colour and acrid milk. capsicum, Schulz.

8 In a trice the two wounded leaders were cut loose, the one still kicking being given its quietus.

9 I hope, for the sake of history and for your brave military record, that a quietus will at once be put on this subject.

10 The dogs had played their part well, keeping such a close watch upon the bears that we had no difficulty in giving them their quietus.

11 As Ellen Seymour had predicted, basket ball did not receive its quietus.

12 They do not always take so much shooting, one ball or two sometimes sufficing as a quietus; but this fellow was unusually large and tenacious of life.

13 Ziegler, he felt sure, would have grasped the position to a nicety, and would use every device in his apparently limitless repertoire to give him his quietus before Leonie's father set foot on shore.

14 This was arranged to keep a quietus on both the religious enthusiast and the wandering Sunday School orator who expected to make a speech on every occasion.

15 Never a man less likely to make his own quietus than plain practical David Dundyke, with his future aspirations and his harmless ambition.

16 What’s most disheartening is how unspectacular a quietus it turns out to be.

17 Kg5, and now, with both Black rooks hanging, a simple king move delivers the quietus.

18 To appease a creditor meant to pay him; in the same manner as une quittance, a quittance or receipt, was originally quietantia, a quieting, from quietus, quiet.

19 At the same time, some, faced with the cumulative weight of all this, seek their own quietus.

20 After a quietus of twenty years she returned.

她隐退二十年后又东山再起。

1 寂灭

nirvana

2 结束

up out period final conclusion termination demise result top close wind conclude fold terminate break decide raise adjourn over with all up be through over and done with bring down the curtain bring to a close draw to a close make an end of ring down the curtain complete past finished done over end finish death completion passing expiration pass drop cap settle expire lapse mend spell doom for draw to a close end close the book on the final curtain come to an end wrap up the end of the road top off jack in come apart at an end be done with it mop up snuff out

3 休眠

dormant quiescent resting quiescency dormancy quiescence

4 无活动

quiescence

5 制止

deterrent check prevention lid curb restraint suppression repression smother deterrence interdiction interdict dissuasion countercheck determent keep stay break prevent correct restrict deter restrain cork staunch interdit detn. detention rebuff holdback stopping counter hold cut rest withhold barge nip stifle rebuke rebut checkmate stanch embar

6 了结

settle be done with it

7 死亡

lethal obituary defunct macabre end night fall death passing departure grave curtain tomb demise fatality dissolution expiry nothingness decease die sleep expire depart evaporate perish croak meet fate the Grim Reaper go to account answer a call of nature the Reaper be raised to the skies under hatches turn up toes dead mortal mortuary last exit fate doom fade-out succumb close eyes deceased loss mortality flatline spell doom for bite the dust lose your life

8 偿清

extinguish pay fix satisfy quit

9 解除

revocatory exonerative resolutive release solution relief discharge clearance cancellation dissolution revocation absolution rescission exoneration quittance acquittance relieve ravel offload break raise lift cancel quit dump terminate dissolve revoke liberate vacate disengage rescind salve absolve exonerate unyoke disburden disenthrall disenthral rescissory affranchise disroot unbrick solve resolve rid loose surrender hoof unburden

10 理清

ravel

11 静止期

quiescent

12 平息

remission subsidence mollification down pass cool subside pacify slake stay lay quiet patch appease quell quash assuage mollify appeasement pacification lull allay overblow silence repress placate attemper

13 清偿

solution redemption solve satisfy extinguish liquidate

14 灭亡

perishing ruin overthrow downfall ruination go out of existence pass out of existence extinction die on the way out fallen fall destruction fate overturn wrack perdition downcast ballyhack crumble perish shipwreck ruinate lose

15 死

cold dead lost deceased mortal fallen lifeless defunct breathless mortuary deathly perishing feetfirst death sleep reaper nothingness deadness go end pass die succumb croak go to account be gathered to fathers cross the Styx give up breath go over to the majority join the majority pass over to the majority yield breath last sleep lay bones with feet foremost return to dust the fatal shears cross the Great Divide yield up the ghost go the way of all flesh hand in accounts sleep last sleep cash in checks hand in checks pass in checks turn up toes go to glory go belly up pay debt to nature pay the debt of nature fall asleep be no more in the dust meet fate belly up great divide shed blood eternity breathe snuff decease flatline cark go bung the last breath hand in dinner pail kick the bucket have had chips inanimate spiritless belly-up clay-cold feet-first night finish rest shade grave ending thirty curtain tomb demise bane utterance bung mort exanimation part fall kick exit expire bleed pike pip dead point dead pull ob. last accent fate decay expiry consummation gruel finis lights-out kiss-off cool quit depart perish crater evanish one's last sleep quit the scene feet foremost toes up shut lights lose the number of mess flack out join the choir invisible go to Maker sleep with fathers go glimmering salted down strike bedrock go home in a box pass in chips pop off the hooks kick up heels go home feet first pass in marble go home pass in quit it

16 灭绝

extinct extinction annihilation exterminate die out

17 解脱

release escape relief deliverance disengage disentangle