Death-dealing

Quick meaning: Death-dealing is an adjective meaning Causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.

Meaning

Causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.

More Meanings

1. The causing of death; murder or killing.

Example Sentences

The country was at that time ruled by a death-dealing tyrant.

The aliens were armed with an array of death-dealing weapons.

Sad lays were sung about the beset king, the vicious raids and ravages of Grendel, [...] how he would never parley or make peace with any Dane nor stop his death-dealing nor pay the death-price.

Busuli, the warrior whom he had stalked to the village, told him many of the tribal legends—how, many years before, his people had come many long marches from the north; how once they had been a great and powerful tribe; and how the slave raiders had wrought such havoc among them with their death-dealing guns that they had been reduced to a mere remnant of their former numbers and power.

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Related dictionary entries include deadly, pernicious, dangerous, life-critical, lacerative, damageful.

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