death-dealing
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."