deathful
Americanadjective
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deadly; fatal.
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resembling death; deathlike.
Etymology
Origin of deathful
First recorded in 1200–50, deathful is from the Middle English word deethful. See death, -ful
Example Sentences
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Revers’d that spear, redoubtable in war, Reclined that banner, erst in fields unfurl’d, That like a deathful meteor gleam’d afar, And brav’d the mighty monarchs of the world.—
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
The stern-brow'd tyrant roars and tears the ground His watchful horns portend the deathful wound.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
Thy deathful bow against some deer-herd bent, Sacred to Dian?
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by John Keats
Ye dewy mists the arid rocks o'er-spread Whose slippery face derides his deathful tread!
From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 by William Knight
Meantime the suitors urge the prince's fate, And deathful arts employ the dire debate: When in his airy tour, the bird of Jove Truss'd with his sinewy pounce a trembling dove; Sinister to their hope!
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
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