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cadaver

Med a corpse
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cadaver

[kə′dav·ər]
(medicine)
A dead animal or human body to be studied by dissection.
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The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance, nothing of romance, nothing of Oriental splendor.
He was a tall man of middle age, with two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture, a rubicund nose, a cadaverous face, and a suit of clothes (if the term be allowable when they suited him not at all) much the worse for wear, very much too small, and placed upon such a short allowance of buttons that it was marvellous how he contrived to keep them on.
They possess a quite dazzling and transcendent beauty which separates them by a wide interval from the cadaverous cod and haddock whose fame is trumpeted in our streets.
His complexion was of a cadaverous hue, and he had a grizzly jagged beard of some three weeks' date.
The housebreaker was lying on the bed, wrapped in his white great-coat, by way of dressing-gown, and displaying a set of features in no degree improved by the cadaverous hue of illness, and the addition of a soiled nightcap, and a stiff, black beard of a week's growth.
He was a tall, gaunt, cadaverous man, in an old greatcoat and slippers, with sunken cheeks, and a restless, eager eye.
Madame de la Rochefidele had an aged, cadaverous face, with a falling of the lower jaw which prevented her from bringing her lips together, and reduced her conversations to a series of impressive but inarticulate gutturals.
GRAVEYARD KEEPER PC/IPAD/IPHONE, RPG, PS9.99 Graveyard Keeper is the cadaverous cousin of farming simulators like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing.
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Today as they march for freedom, for a secure homeland, their expectant gazes lighting up their cadaverous and tired countenances deceive their numerical ages, manifesting a resilient resolve to fight against the hegemonic subservience they are being subjected to at the hands of the Indian forces.
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