Corpse-like

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Alternative form of corpselike..

Example Sentences

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.

Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; […]

[…] a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.

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.

Synonyms for corpse-like

Antonyms for corpse-like

Word Forms

• more corpse-like
• most corpse-like

Usage Notes

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