cadaverise

present singular third person cadaverises · participle present cadaverising · participle past cadaverised · past cadaverised

1. alternativeAlternative form of cadaverize.

   Worms like words devitalise and cadaverise the body turning it into cheese-flesh.

   2016, Bostjan Nedoh, Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, page 68

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   During this man's imprisonment, he had adopted every available means of reducing himself; and as his name was called for trial, he was seen thumping his elbows violently against the walls of the dock, to effect a temporary suspension of the circulation, and cadaverise his countenance.

   1841 April, “The Condemned Cells”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 23, number 136, page 421

   The medicine of the nineteenth century was haunted by that occult eye which cadaverises life.

   1994, Barry Smart, Michel Foucault, page 80