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cadaverous

adj

Etymology

From Latin cadāverōsus; compare Middle English cadaverous (“gangrenous, mortified”).

  1. derived from cadāverōsus

Definitions

  1. Corpselike

    Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.

    • Some approached pure blanching; some had a bluish pallor; some worn by the older characters (which had possibly lain by folded for many a year) inclined to a cadaverous tint, and to a Georgian style.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cadaverous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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