- 1. a. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. Source: opted
- 2. n. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) Source: wordnet
- 3. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak. Source: webster
- 4. Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation;that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. Shak. Source: adambom
- 5. n euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) Source: ecdict
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