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Definitions for: Deadly
[adv] (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
[adv] as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke"
[adv] as if dead
[adj] (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
[adj] causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
[adj] of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
[adj] exceedingly harmful
[adj] (theology) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
[adj] extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
Webster (1913) Definition: Dead"ly, a.
1. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive;
certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or
wound.
2. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately
hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
Thy assailant is quick, skillful, and deadly.
--Shak.
3. Subject to death; mortal. [Obs.]
The image of a deadly man. --Wyclif (Rom.
i. 23).
Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna.
See under Nightshade.
Dead"ly, adv.
1. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
``Deadly pale.'' --Shak.
2. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
The groanings of a deadly wounded man. --Ezek. xxx.
24.
3. In an implacable manner; destructively.
4. Extremely. [Obs.] ``Deadly weary.'' --Orrery. ``So deadly
cunning a man.'' --Arbuthnot.
Synonyms: baneful, deathly, deucedly, devilishly, fatal, harmful, insanely, lethal, lifelessly, madly, mortal, mortal(a), noxious, pernicious, pestilent, toxic, unpardonable, venomous, virulent
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