Associations to the word «Cadaverous»
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Wiktionary
CADAVEROUS, adjective. Corpselike; hinting of death; imitating a cadaver.
Dictionary definition
CADAVEROUS, adjective. Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration".
CADAVEROUS, adjective. Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end".
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.