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Mortally

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Adverb

1. mortally

in such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.)

Example Sentences:
'a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mortally

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adjective
1. 
(of living beings, esp human beings) subject to death
2. 
of or involving life or the world
3. 
ending in or causing death; fatal
a mortal blow
4. 
deadly or unrelenting
a mortal enemy
5. 
of or like the fear of death; dire
mortal terror
6. 
great or very intense
mortal pain
7. 
possible
there was no mortal reason to go
8. slang
long and tedious
for three mortal hours
noun
9. 
a mortal being
10. informal
a person
a mean mortal

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Mortally

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adjective
1. 
that must eventually die
all mortal beings
2. 
of a human being considered as a being who must eventually die
3. 
of this world
4. 
of death
5. 
causing death; deadly; fatal
6. 
to the death
mortal combat
7. 
not to be pacified
a mortal enemy
8. 
very intense; grievous
mortal terror
9.  Informal
a. 
extreme; very great
b. 
very long and tedious
c. 
conceivable; possible
of no mortal good to anyone
10.  Theology
causing spiritual death
said of a sin serious in itself, adequately recognized as such, and committed with full consent of one's will see also venial
noun
11. 
a being who must eventually die; esp., a human being; person
adverb
12.  Dialectal
extremely

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mortally

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adj.
1.
a. Liable or subject to death; not immortal: mortal beings.
b. Of or relating to humans as being subject to death: "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" (Shakespeare).
2.
a. Causing death; fatal: a mortal wound. See Synonyms at fatal.
b. Fought to the death: mortal combat.
c. Relentlessly hostile; implacable: a mortal enemy.
3.
a. Of great intensity or severity; dire: mortal terror.
b. Conceivable; imaginable: no mortal reason for us to go.
c. Used as an intensive: a mortal fool.
n.
A human.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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