death-dealing
Collocations
2VERB + DEATH-DEALING
ruled, stop
DEATH-DEALING + NOUN
tyrant, weapons
Definitions
adj
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.
noun
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.
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4The country was at that time ruled by a death-dealing tyrant.
WiktionaryThe aliens were armed with an array of death-dealing weapons.
WiktionaryBusuli, 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
WiktionarySad 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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