Cadaverous Definition & Meaning

cadaverous
adjective
  1. 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"
  2. of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"

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