Emily Dickinson Lexicon — DEATH'LIKE

Definition for DEATH'LIKE

DEATH'LESS DEATH'S'-DOOR

DEATH'LIKE, a.

Resembling death; gloomy; still; calm; quiet; peaceful; motionless, like death in horror or in stillness; as, deathlike slumbers.
Resembling death; cadaverous.

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