deathlike


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deathlike

(ˈdɛθˌlaɪk)
adj
resembling or suggestive of death
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Adj.1.deathlike - having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor"
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

adjective
Gruesomely suggestive of ghosts or death:
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deathlike

[ˈdeθlaɪk] ADJcomo de muerto, cadavérico
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The first thing that struck her was the deathlike stillness of the room.
A faint tinge of color showed itself on her livid cheeks; a momentary spasm of pain stirred her deathlike face.
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.
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.
For a long time no sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save the piteous wailing of the tiny man-child.
In the deathlike stillness only the tramp of horses was heard.
And with fear in his eyes, Lord Henry rushed through the flapping palms to find Dorian Gray lying face downwards on the tiled floor in a deathlike swoon.
Within the gleam of rose and orange light from the burning sticks were other soldiers, snoring and heaving, or lying deathlike in slumber.
An adventuress with a European reputation of the blackest possible colour-- such was the general description of the woman with the deathlike complexion and the glittering eyes.
"It is wet, it is wet; there is such a pleasant deathlike stillness in Sorbe!" She was now suddenly a frog, "Croak"; and now she was an old woman.
This was what had caused that strange expression of deathlike rigidity in his face which had so impressed Anna.
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.