MEANING
Resembling a corpse, especially through marked thinness or pallor.
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- cadaverous face
- cadaverous figure
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The portrait gave him a cadaverous face.
A cadaverous figure stood beneath the lamp.
The lighting made her appear cadaverous.
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- cadaverous
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Primary category: horror. Forms: More cadaverous; most cadaverous. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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