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deathlike

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Death´like`
a.1.Resembling death.
A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose.
- Pope.
2.Deadly.
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Adj.1.deathlike - having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor"
deathly
dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
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deathlike [ˈdeθlaɪk] ADJ → como de muerto, cadavérico


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No garb but that of the grave could have befitted such a deathlike aspect; the eyes, indeed, had the wild gleam of a sepulchral lamp; all else was fixed in the stern calmness which old men wear in the coffin.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The first thing that struck her was the deathlike stillness of the room.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
His young and fair features were almost as deathlike as those of the form beside him, and almost as fixed: but HIS was the hush of exhausted anguish, and HERS of perfect peace.
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