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cadaverous

adjective

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

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Word Facts

Word length
10
Starts with
C
Ends with
S
Contains
AD
Scrabble score
16
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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adjective

  1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

    “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”

adjective

  1. of or relating to a cadaver or corpse

    “we had long anticipated his cadaverous end”

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Example Sentences

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
we had long anticipated his cadaverous end

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