death-dealing
Adjective
Meaning
death-dealing
Causing or inflicting death, or capable of doing so; lethal.
The country was at that time ruled by a death-dealing tyrant.
The aliens were armed with an array of death-dealing weapons.
Synonyms
deathly
killing
fatal
deadly
lethal
mortal
murderous
deathbed
life-threatening
untreatable
knock-down-and-drag-out
deathful
Examples
Marsyas Marsyas under Apollo's punishment, İstanbul Archaeology Museum Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music.
Special sprayers were installed on board aircraft so that they could vaporize, over vast areas of territory, a fine, death-dealing rain.