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Deadly   /dˈɛdli/   Listen
adjective
deadly  adj.  
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."
3.
Subject to death; mortal. (Obs.) "The image of a deadly man."
Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.


adverb
deadly  adv.  
1.
In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly. "Deadly pale."
2.
In a manner to occasion death; mortally. "The groanings of a deadly wounded man."
3.
In an implacable manner; destructively.
4.
Extremely. (Obs.) "Deadly weary." "So deadly cunning a man."





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"Deadly" Quotes from Famous Books



... a panther-like spring, sure, noiseless, deadly, another figure leapt suddenly across her vision. There followed a violent struggle in front of her, a confused swaying to and fro, a cry choked instantly and terribly, the tinkling sound of steel ...
— The Way of an Eagle • Ethel M. Dell
... upon her all the night, and dawn of day discovers the untiring train yet bearing down upon the ship in an eternity of troubled water, onward she comes, with dim lights burning in her hull, and people there, asleep; as if no deadly element were peering in at every seam and chink, and no drowned seaman's grave, with but a plank to cover it, were yawning in the ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens
... not include exclusiveness. Exclusiveness is deadly to originality. The exclusive woman is seldom of service to the race, and she is not always a congenial or an agreeable person. She may live so much to herself that she is uninteresting as well as ...
— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley
... decline! Whatever might be the truth about the American girl, it was plain enough that while she could still reckon on the hopes and chances of the living, Eleanor had wasted her heart and powers on an egotist, only to reap ingratitude, and the deadly fruit of ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... her head, and Billy administered the deadly potion, while the humbug lover stood by, confidently expecting dire results, but too much subdued by the situation to ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major


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