1. death or something that causes death
Usage: formal; literary
2. something that serves to suppress, check, or eliminate
Usage: formal

Examples

• The disease gave him his quietus at the age of forty.
• Shakespeare’s Hamlet speaks of taking arms against troubles or ending them with ‘a bare bodkin’ for quietus.
• The new regulations put a quietus to the company’s expansion plans.
• The scandal brought a swift quietus to his political career.
• The harsh winter gave quietus to many of the weaker plants.
• Her stern look was enough to give quietus to the children’s rowdy behavior.