deathlike

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DEATH'LIKE, adjective 1. Resembling death; gloomy; still; calm; quiet; peaceful; motionless; like death in horror or in stillness; as deathlike slumbers. 2. Resembling death; cadaverous.
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