Deathful

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.

    "Five hapless swains with soft allusive smiles / The harlot meshes in her deathful toils […]."

  2. 2
    Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly.
  3. 3
    Subject to death; mortal. literary

Etymology

From Middle English dethful, equivalent to death + -ful.

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