Meaning

Alternative form of deathlike..

Example Sentences

Not the faintest, or most distant sound, of any description whatsoever, reached their attentive listen; not even the reverberated echo of their footsteps struck their directed ear—a soft earth received their cautious tread, and all was a profound and death-like quiet.

“Theresa! (exclaimed the stranger) “is your name Theresa? asked she, a death-like paleness at the same time overspreading her countenance.

As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.

Some few disclosures, some secret conversations, broken by the hollow cough, by the death-like faintings, passed between them.

Mother Earth, at their devastating touch, falls into a death-like swoon—her green mantle overlaid by a dust-coloured shroud.

Word Forms

• more death-like
• most death-like

When Should You Use Death-like?

Use death-like when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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