What is the meaning of cadaverous?

Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
Of or relating to a cadaver or corpse.
- usage: "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end"
- synonyms: cadaveric

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APA	WordNet. (2010). cadaverous. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/cadaverous/definitions/1170060
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