death-bearing

English

Etymology

From death +‎ bearing. Compare Old English dēaþbǣre, cwealmbǣre (literally “death-bearing”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

Adjective

death-bearing (comparative more death-bearing, superlative most death-bearing)

1. Bringing or carrying death; deadly; destructive
   • 2006, Olga Freidenberg, Image and Concept:

     A pitiless, death-bearing posterity lies on the earth without cries of grief. Meanwhile wives and even gray mothers — one on one side of the raised altar, the other on the other — lament, praying for protection from the deadly misfortunes.