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Definition of deadly

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

Pertainyms: lifeless, exanimate, dead

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