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death-dealing

death-dealing adjective: causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.

Adjective

death-dealing

  1. Causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.
    • The country was at that time ruled by a death-dealing tyrant.
    • The aliens were armed with an array of death-dealing weapons.

Noun

death-dealing (uncountable)

  1. The causing of death; murder or killing.
    • Sad lays were sung about the beset king,
      the vicious raids and ravages of Grendel,
      [...] how he would never
      parley or make peace with any Dane
      nor stop his death-dealing nor pay the death-price.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7

Questions about death-dealing

What does death-dealing mean?
Death-dealing means causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.
What part of speech is death-dealing?
Death-dealing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near death-dealing in the dictionary

  1. death-bed conversions
  2. death-beds
  3. death-come-quickly
  4. death-damp
  5. death-damps
  6. death-dealing
  7. death-defying
  8. death-doom
  9. death-fire
  10. death-fires
  11. death-grip

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