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Definition of Deathlike
1. Adjective. Having the physical appearance of death. "A deathly pallor"
Definition of Deathlike
1. a. Resembling death.
Definition of Deathlike
1. Adjective. Resembling death. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Deadly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deathlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deathlike
Literary usage of Deathlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pioneering in South Brazil: Three Years of Forest and Prairie Life in the by Thomas Plantagenet Bigg-Wither (1878)
"deathlike appearance of people. —Hotel Cintra.—The Custom•house.—"Nigger" versus
white man.—On some peculiarities of appearances and customs of Kio de ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest: With Anecdotes of by Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland (1843)
"Lord Middleton was compelled to speak loudly in his ear to dispel his deathlike
slumber.1 He started at first, but perceiving Middleton kneeling by him, ..."
3. Through Unexplored Asia by William Jameson Reid (1899)
"... store of provisions, the two men manning it being rescued only by the most
arduous labour as they clung with deathlike tenacity to a protruding boulder. ..."
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