The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deathful \Death"ful\, a.
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Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
These eyes behold The deathful scene.
--Pope. -
Liable to undergo death; mortal.
The deathless gods and deathful earth.
--Chapman.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) Full of death or slaughter. 2 (context archaic English) Liable to undergo death. 3 Resembling death.
Usage examples of "deathful".
For the deathful hand of Fu-Manchu was stretched over Redmoat, at any hour to loose strange, Oriental horrors upon its inmates.
An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.
An hour later we stood in the silent room, with its drawn blinds and its deathful atmosphere, looking down at the pale, intellectual face of Henry Stradwick, Lord Southery, the greatest engineer of his day.
A shriek - a deathful, horrifying cry - and a distant babbling alone answered me.