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cadaverous |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cadaverous \Ca*dav"er*ous\, a. [L. cadaverosus.] 1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as a cadaverous look 2. Of or pertaining to or having the qualities of a dead body. ``The scent cadaverous.'' -- {Ca*dav"er*ous*ly}, adv -- {Ca*dav"er*ous*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cadaverous adj : very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: {bony}, {emaciated}, {gaunt}, {haggard}, {pinched}, {skeletal}, {wasted}]
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