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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No dang'rous tree or deathful fruit shall grow, No tempting serpent to allure the soul, From native innocence; a Canaan here Another Canaan shall excel the old, And from fairer Pisgah's top be seen.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.
From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax
You have spoken of Truth, 'the deathful Truth'; this being, however, nothing but Truth according to the world's opinion, which changes with every passing generation, and therefore is not Truth at all.
From Ardath by Corelli, Marie
But vain was valor—vain the flower Of KERMAN, in that deathful hour, Against AL HASSAN'S whelming power.—
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
Now, deeply yearning o'er our deathful fate, With joyful hope of India's shore elate, We loose the hawsers and the sail expand, And, upward coast the Ethiopian strand.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
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