To turn into or treat like a corpse; to make something appear dead or lifeless.
From Latin 'cadaver' plus the verb suffix '-ize' (to cause to become). This term developed in medical and literary usage.
While rarely used today, medieval writers loved 'cadaverize' to describe how diseases or curses could make someone look corpse-like while still alive!
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