deathsome

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Definition of deathsome

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adj

Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death

“He was just Calvin's type, Terry knew: skinny bones and deathsome pallor, but spiced up with a smartass twist to his lips.”
“The Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania was a wild and deathsome place when I entered the world in 1782.”
“But I'm lying as I be / Under a deathsome tree”

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From death + -some.

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