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death-bearing

death-bearing adjective: bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive.

Adjective

death-bearing (comparative more death-bearing, superlative most death-bearing)

  1. Bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive
    • A pitiless, death-bearing posterity lies on the earth without cries of grief. Meanwhile wives and even gray mothers — one on one side of the raised altar, the other on the other — lament, praying for protection from the deadly misfortunes.2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept

Forms of death-bearing

comparativemore death-bearing
superlativemost death-bearing

Origin of death-bearing

From death + bearing. Compare Old English dēaþbǣre, cwealmbǣre (literally “death-bearing”).

Words that rhyme with death-bearing

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Questions about death-bearing

What does death-bearing mean?
Death-bearing means bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive.
What part of speech is death-bearing?
Death-bearing is an adjective.

Words near death-bearing in the dictionary

  1. death's herb
  2. death's-head
  3. death's-head hawkmoth
  4. death's-head hawkmoths
  5. death's-heads
  6. death-bearing
  7. death-bed
  8. death-bed conversion
  9. death-bed conversions
  10. death-beds
  11. death-come-quickly

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