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cadaverous

/kuh-dav-er-uhs/US // kəˈdæv ər əs //UK // (kəˈdævərəs) //

尸体的,尸身,尸体,死尸

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like a corpse.
    • : pale; ghastly.
    • : haggard and thin.

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Examples

  • The first three occurred during major surgeries decades earlier, when doctors cooled his body to cadaverous temperatures and stopped his heart to repair major arteries weakened by an inherited disorder called Marfan syndrome.

  • A lean, cadaverous boy from along the mountain, a born enemy of the lads of the village, had dared me.

  • Caroline's first child is a pale, cadaverous little girl that will not live.

  • He had a particularly imperturbable butler with a cadaverous sad face and an eye of rigid disapproval.

  • The cadaverous man in the blue jacket turned to the man in the black garment of similar cut.

  • "Capitalistic dictatorships, he means," the cadaverous man in the blue jacket explained.