Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling death.
  • adjective obsolete Deadly.

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  • adjective Resembling death.
  • adjective obsolete Deadly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having the physical appearance of death

Etymologies

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death +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Growth in "deathlike" places like Suffolk County, in Long Island, Orange County, N.Y., and Morris County, N.J., has been well over three times faster than the city.

    The future of newspapers (cont'd) ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • It is said to take you to both a deathlike coma and a lively rapture.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • It's easy enough to include vampire vulnerabilities such as sunlight burning them, deathlike sleep during the day, or susceptibility to yummy buttered garlic bread.

    Vulnerable Vampires Victoria Janssen 2010

  • Afraid someone will pounce upon me in the darkness, or tortured deathlike Mom, deprived of her life-giving medication, and in her dead moldy, gray-green shroud will come back again.

    Jay's Journal Dr. Beatrice Sparks 2010

  •   He had even seen them: affectless men and women with a deathlike pallor, high nasal voices, and the characteristic drooping at the chin.

    Zombie, Attorneys at Law 2010

  •   She usually billed more hours than just about anyone else, which accounted for her deathlike pallor.

    Zombie, Attorneys at Law 2010

  • I woke from deathlike sleep to find desolation all around me, but no Chaos.

    The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010

  • By now she had surfaced to consciousness enough that it was too late to fall back into the deathlike chasm of rest.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • My heartbeat felt as if it would rip my limbs apart with its dangerous, heavy, deathlike thumping.

    Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010

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