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DEADLY

Definition:

[adverb] as if dead
Synonyms: lifelessly
[adverb] as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke"
[adverb] (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous"
Synonyms: madly, insanely, deucedly, devilishly
[adjective] causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
Synonyms: deathly, mortal
[adjective] of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
Synonyms: lethal
[adjective] extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite"
Synonyms: venomous, virulent
[adjective] involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins"
Synonyms: mortal
[adjective] exceedingly harmful
Synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent
[adjective] (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect