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Definition of corpse-like in English: corpse-likeadjective Resembling a corpse, especially in being completely still or having a pale, gaunt appearance. he manages to maintain a corpse-like stillness that helps him to preserve oxygen their corpse-like complexions Example sentencesExamples - I scrutinized the reflection of my stilled body, trying to halt the rise and fall of my belly in order to appear corpselike.
- I gradually made out that their faces were made up to be pale and corpse-like.
- As the film begins, a fishing boat pulls a corpse-like Bourne out of the Mediterranean Sea; he is, as his name underlines, reborn in this instant.
- The lack of empathy for the characters and corpse-like coldness permeating both the look and feel of the picture make it a tough film to connect with.
- The body would learn it couldn't kill the infection with fever, and would instead, as a defense, cool the body down to near corpse-like temperatures.
- My eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face!
- My first day of high school, I wore all black and powdered my skin until it was almost corpselike.
- The vision of her body, flotsam on the water, is at once both corpse-like and strangely beautiful.
- His face was even more grey and corpse-like than ever before.
- I have friends who frequently have four or five or fourteen day benders, emerging corpselike and battered but somehow recovering enough to do it again.
- Spooky corpse-like kids in period costumes pop out at the first available opportunity.
Synonyms pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, deathlike, ghostly
Definition of corpse-like in US English: corpse-likeadjectiveˈkôrpsˌlīk Resembling a corpse, especially in being completely still or having a pale, gaunt appearance. he manages to maintain a corpse-like stillness that helps him to preserve oxygen their corpse-like complexions Example sentencesExamples - I gradually made out that their faces were made up to be pale and corpse-like.
- The vision of her body, flotsam on the water, is at once both corpse-like and strangely beautiful.
- As the film begins, a fishing boat pulls a corpse-like Bourne out of the Mediterranean Sea; he is, as his name underlines, reborn in this instant.
- My eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face!
- I scrutinized the reflection of my stilled body, trying to halt the rise and fall of my belly in order to appear corpselike.
- The lack of empathy for the characters and corpse-like coldness permeating both the look and feel of the picture make it a tough film to connect with.
- The body would learn it couldn't kill the infection with fever, and would instead, as a defense, cool the body down to near corpse-like temperatures.
- His face was even more grey and corpse-like than ever before.
- My first day of high school, I wore all black and powdered my skin until it was almost corpselike.
- I have friends who frequently have four or five or fourteen day benders, emerging corpselike and battered but somehow recovering enough to do it again.
- Spooky corpse-like kids in period costumes pop out at the first available opportunity.
Synonyms pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, deathlike, ghostly
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