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Cadaverous
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- Rather than let the victim's pet starve, the cadaverous counterspy scoops it up and takes it with him into the night.
- Sure, it turned the patient's skin a cadaverous grey or blue-a permanent affliction known as argyria.
- More to the point, the bare stone would look ravaged to him, even cadaverous.
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Word Origin & History
cadaverous
"looking like a corpse," early 15c., from L. cadaverosus "corpse-like," from cadaver (see cadaver).
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cadaverous ca·dav·er·ous (kə-dāv'ər-əs)
adj.
Suggestive of death; corpselike.
Having a corpselike pallor.
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