deathful

adjective

1. Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly.

   Five hapless swains with soft allusive smiles / The harlot meshes in her deathful toils […].

2. Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly.

3. Subject to death; mortal.

   literary

Where it comes from

From Middle English dethful, equivalent to death + -ful.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry deathful (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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