| deadly [a] |
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| 1) | causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" |
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| Synonyms : | deathly mortal |
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| fatal |
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| 2) | of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection" |
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| Synonyms : | lethal |
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| fatal |
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| 3) | extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" |
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| Synonyms : | venomous virulent |
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| toxic |
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| 4) | involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" |
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| Synonyms : | mortal |
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| unpardonable divinity |
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| Synonyms : | baneful pernicious pestilent |
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| harmful |
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| 6) | (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect |
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| virulent |
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| deadly [r] |
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| Synonyms : | lifelessly |
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| exanimate dead |
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| 2) | as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic stroke" |
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| 3) | (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" |
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| Synonyms : | deucedly devilishly insanely madly |
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| intensifier |
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