death-dealing

English

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Adjective

death-dealing

  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.
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 127:
      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.

Noun

death-dealing (uncountable)

  1. The causing of death; murder or killing.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7:
      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.
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