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Definition of "deathlike" [death•like]

  • Resembling death. (adjective)
  • Deadly. (adjective)

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Use "deathlike" in a sentence
  • "Growth in "deathlike" places like Suffolk County, in Long Island, Orange County, N.Y., and Morris County, N.J., has been well over three times faster than the city."
  • "It is said to take you to both a deathlike coma and a lively rapture."
  • "I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude."