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corpselike

a. Resembling a corpse.

Usage examples of "corpselike".

Ronay in my grip looked corpselike, his eyes half-open, breath suspended.

His palm was wet and his pale flesh looked almost corpselike compared with my tan.

The whole city seemed to have awakened with pale and almost corpselike creatures pouring out of the dark buildings.

The doctor stood corpselike, his little mouth dry and twitching, his eyes blinking uncontrollably with unwanted moisture, and his fingers wriggling desperately.

No more loungers were in sight on this level, but he felt that crazy and somewhat corpselike eyes were watching him as he thrust open the door of the department of special finance.

This alternation of corpselike stillness and frenzied motion distressed him, and he was unable to lose himself in the act, half-listening to the sounds of more commercial passions emanating from adjoining rooms.

Some men slept, their faces given a corpselike look by the dust coated on their skin.

The corpselike plant derived nourishment from decaying wood and vegetable matter since it lacked chlorophyll, and its waxy-looking surface turned black when touched.

Vron lay belly-down, eyes and mouth open but so corpselike that I tensed and waited for the sound of her breath.

It was impossible to believe the man could look worse, more ill, more corpselike, than when he had first seen him.

Light flashed as swiftly as lightning, a blue fire, and in that instant she saw the six of them seated around the corpselike form of Blessing.

The sound causes corpselike bodies that are strewn in the streets to tremble to life again.