Corpse-like
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Corpse-like is an adjective meaning Alternative form of corpselike.
Meaning
Alternative form of corpselike.
Example Sentences
Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; […]
A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.
His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent.
Every one capable of thinking felt the advantage of the idea, and in a moment (it was all done in rapid moments) Captain Benwick had resigned the poor corpse-like figure entirely to the brother’s care, and was off for the town with the utmost rapidity.
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