Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling death; apparently dead.
- Deadly, as a venomous snake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Deathlike; resembling death.
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- adjective Resembling
death ;deathlike
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek θάνατος (thanatos, "death") + -oid.
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Examples
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Electra threw up the sash, that the wintry air might revive him; and as the red glare of declining day streamed down from the sky-light upon the group, she looked from the easy-chair to the canvas, and mutely questioned: "Which is most thanatoid -- painter or painted?"
Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864
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Authorities in Binghamton, New York, insist a couple of hours was not too long to discover the thanatoid scene in the Immigrant Ed Building.
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