Death-like

Quick meaning: Death-like is an adjective meaning Alternative form of deathlike.

Meaning

Alternative form of deathlike.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

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