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cadaverous

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cadaverous in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    bony  cadaverous  emaciated  gaunt  haggard  pinched  skeletal  wasted 
  2. of or relating to a cadaver or corpse
    "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
    cadaverous  cadaveric 
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