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deadly

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Deadly may refer to: Deadliness , the ability to cause death Deadly (film) , a 1991 Australian film Deadly (novel series) , a children's book series by Morris Gleitzman and Paul Jennings Deadly (AU TV series) , an Australian children's television cartoon ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
deadly \dead"ly\, adv. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death; deathly. ``Deadly pale.'' --Shak. In a manner to occasion death; mortally. The groanings of a deadly wounded man. --Ezek. xxx. 24. In an implacable manner; destructively. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English deadlic "mortal, subject to death," also "causing death;" see dead + -ly (1). Meaning "having the capacity to kill" is from late 14c. (Old English words for this included deaðbærlic , deaðberende ).

Usage examples of deadly.

December 2003wrote another aardwolf reporting on the deadly conditions in Iraq, his political allegiances were quickly questioned by the White House, CIA officials later learned.

Not just with Aes Sedai, of course, but Accepted in banded dresses and scurrying novices in pure white, Warders moving with the deadly grace of leopards whether lean or bulky, servants who had followed Aes Sedai from the Tower, even a few children.

The rumble of heavy machinery, even the smell of meating men and animals, triggered mass assaults by the rampaging Africans, many of which bore deadly stings.

Soon the MiG filled the camera screen, the sleek, deadly aircraft jetting gouts of its own afterburner fire out the tailpipes.

There was the dead white shape of Mycelium masses, the grotesqueness of Agaricus, the deformity of Deadly Amanita and of Morel.

Only four of them kept moving after the airburst that sprayed them with deadly shrapnel.

All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.

Mollusks hunted ammonites, boring through shells, poisoning prey animals, and firing deadly darts.

She had dreamed about him the night before, rolling, clanking away from her down a straight old macadam road, out in the country, fields and hills in metallic cloudlight toward the end of the day, aware of exactly how many hours and minutes to dark, how many foot-candles left in the sky, bringing behind him like ducklings a line of lamps, generators, and beam projectors each on its little trailer rig, heading for his next job, the next carnival or auto lot, still wanting nothing but the deadly amps transmogrified to light, the great white-hot death-cold spill and flood and thrust, wherever he had to go, on whatever terms he had to take, to get to keep doing it.

Alvaro of the Falcon was accounted the deadliest blade among the Isles - and Amra, gray with years, was an unknown adversary.

One of the most deadly sins of men has been cruelty, cruelty to animals, to children, to women, to men.

Aegis missiles to pepper this guy with deadly expanding-rod antiair missiles.

Others, confident of their ability to move through the night, but not really knowing how the Rebels secured their camps, walked into Claymore-mined areas and were mangled by the deadly antipersonnel mines.

Augustine was telling them, from a fish point of view, of the deadly danger that lay concealed beneath the appetising wriggles of the agonised worm.

If Sir Robert Appleton is not moved by this to look into matters in person, that ghost you told him of will make another deadly appearance.