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death-dealing en · ADJ

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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.
   • Busuli, the warrior whom he had stalked to the village, told him many of the tribal legends—how, many years before, his people had come many long marches from the north; how once they had been a great and powerful tribe; and how the slave raiders had wrought such havoc among them with their death-dealing guns that they had been reduced to a mere remnant of their former numbers and power. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 127:

death-dealing en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable) 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: