"corpse-like" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more corpse-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most corpse-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "corpselike"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch",
          "text": "Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842 May, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 20, number 5, page 259",
          "text": "[…] a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror",
          "text": "A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain",
          "text": "His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of corpselike."
      ],
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  ],
  "word": "corpse-like"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more corpse-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most corpse-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "corpselike"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1828, David Macbeth Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch",
          "text": "Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842 May, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”, in Graham’s Magazine, volume 20, number 5, page 259",
          "text": "[…] a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror",
          "text": "A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain",
          "text": "His body was dead white where it was not cruelly galled, bitten, rasped; his colourless face puffy, sweat-swollen, corpse-like, a tangled yellow beard covering his mouth; his eyes were red and pustulent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of corpselike."
      ],
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