शब्दकोश में "मृत्युसदृश" का अर्थ एक विशेषण है जो किसी ऐसी चीज़ का वर्णन करता है जो किसी तरह से मृत्यु जैसा दिखता है या सुझाव देता है, जैसे अत्यधिक शांति या शांति की स्थिति, पीलापन या रंग की कमी, या ठंड या बेजान की भावना। इसका उपयोग ऐसे व्यक्ति का वर्णन करने के लिए भी किया जा सकता है जो मृत प्रतीत होता है या जैसे कि वे मरने वाले हैं, या ऐसी स्थिति जो बेहद खतरनाक या जीवन के लिए खतरा है।
1. At the same instant his ear caught a sort of indistinct sound on the stairs, followed by the measured tread of soldiery, with the clanking of swords and military accoutrements then came a hum and buzz as of many voices, so as to deaden even the noisy mirth of the bridal party, among whom a vague feeling of curiosity and apprehension quelled every disposition to talk, and almost instantaneously the most deathlike stillness prevailed.
2. A more than deathlike silence then reigned in the house.
3. The gray light, the gloomy little area of dark grass, surrounded by its border of brush, beyond which the pines rose, in breathing silence, apparently into the very clouds, and the deathlike stillness of the vast forest, were all in unison to deepen such a sensation.
4. So riveted and intense had been that gaze, and so changeless his attitude, that a stranger might not have told the living from the dead, but for the occasional gleamings of a troubled spirit, that shot athwart the dark visage of one, and the deathlike calm that had forever settled on the lineaments of the other.
5. Within the gleam of rose and orange light from the burning sticks were other soldiers, snoring and heaving, or lying deathlike in slumber.