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cadaveric

UK/kadəˈvɛɹɪk/US/kəˈdavəɹɪk/

cadaveric adjective: pertaining to a corpse.

Adjective

cadaveric (comparative more cadaveric, superlative most cadaveric)

  1. Pertaining to a corpse.
    • Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157
  2. Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
    • He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21

cadaveric meaning in Tamil

cadaveric in Tamil

பிணத்துக்குரிய

Forms of cadaveric

comparativemore cadaveric
superlativemost cadaveric

Origin of cadaveric

From French cadavérique.

Words formed from cadaveric

Phrases with cadaveric

Questions about cadaveric

What does cadaveric mean?
Cadaveric means pertaining to a corpse.
What is cadaveric in Tamil?
Cadaveric in Tamil is பிணத்துக்குரிய. See Cadaveric meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cadaveric?
Cadaveric is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cadaveric?
Cadaveric is pronounced /kadəˈvɛɹɪk/ (UK).

Words near cadaveric in the dictionary

  1. cadaver
  2. cadaver dog
  3. cadaver dogs
  4. cadavera
  5. cadaverate
  6. cadaveric
  7. cadaveric alkaloid
  8. cadaveric alkaloids
  9. cadaveric spasm
  10. cadaveric spasms
  11. cadaverically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cadaveric (page history and authors); cadaveric (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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