definition of
[cadaverous]

[1] #1 cadaverous s. [bony, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration". wn

[2] #2 cadaverous a. [cadaveric] of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end". wn