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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fatally
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be mortally/fatally wounded
▪ On that same day, he was mortally wounded by an assassin.
fatally/fundamentally/deeply etc flawed
▪ The research behind this report is seriously flawed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
injure
▪ He added that securing the posts had not been completed before Gary was fatally injured the following day.
▪ As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.
▪ Another was fatally injured by a stag when dispensing feed to his herd of deer.
▪ Another suspected drug handler was fatally injured in a car bomb attack in Bilbao on Jan. 9.
▪ A LOW-FLYING duck was fatally injured in Darlington yesterday despite the rescue efforts of shopworkers.
shoot
▪ The warden of Gisovu Prison and his secretary were fatally shot as they drove home Thursday, said Gov.
▪ Virgil Ware, 13, was fatally shot by two white kids while riding his bicycle.
weaken
▪ But on the day of reckoning a divided Kurdistan could be a fatally weakened one.
▪ The arms scandal had fatally weakened the partnership.
wounded
▪ Unfortunately, the London's pilot was fatally wounded, but his co-pilot managed to alight in a very rough sea.
▪ When she returned a short while later, she found the 27-year-old Cosby fatally wounded.
▪ She rushed in to find her husband collapsing, fatally wounded.
▪ Unfortunately, the young prince was fatally wounded while hunting in 1031.
▪ He sprayed two bursts of gunfire into a crowd outside the defence ministry and injured 10 people before he was fatally wounded.
▪ The girl's brother attempts to save her but is fatally wounded by the Marquis' brother's sword.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ There is simply too much heat lost to the attic, making the roofs fatally warm.
▪ What is good for the food industry can be fatally bad for the health of the entire nation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatally

Fatally \Fa"tal*ly\, adv.

  1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.
    --Bentley.

  2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fatally

1570s, "predestined," from fatal + -ly (2). Meaning "in a deadly manner" is from 1590s.

Wiktionary
fatally

adv. 1 In a fatal manner; lethally. 2 Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.

WordNet
fatally

adv. with fatal consequences or implications; "he was fatally ill equipped for the climb"

Usage examples of "fatally".

The irruptions of the Goths, under the reign of Philip, fatally convinced them of their mistake.

Alaric acquired, in the school of Theodosius, the knowledge of the art of war, which he afterwards so fatally exerted for the destruction of Rome.

On this memorable occasion, Sidonius, whose early ambition had been so fatally blasted, appeared as the orator of Auvergne, among the provincial deputies who addressed the throne with congratulations or complaints.

But the lieutenant of Chosroes had fatally mistaken the intentions of his master.

Ingleby describes a case of fibrous tumor of the uterus terminating fatally, but not until three weeks after delivery.

The patient was a woman of thirty-six, in her eighth month of pregnancy, who was suddenly seized with eclampsia, which terminated fatally in ten hours.

There are many cases on record, some terminating fatally from strangulation or exposure to traumatism.

A somewhat similar case, but which terminated fatally, is recorded in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences of July, 1882.

A somewhat analogous case, though not ending fatally, was reported by Hertz of a woman of twenty-six, who was anesthetized for the extraction of the right second inferior molar.

It is quite possible that, being an operation of a serious nature, it is never performed early enough, the patient being fatally weakened by inanition.

It was supposed that in pulling on the boots each of the subsequent owners had scratched himself and became fatally inoculated with the venom, which was unsuspected and not combated.

Yeo says that sexual intercourse occasionally induces epilepsy, and relates a case in which a severe epileptic fit terminated fatally three days after the seizure, which occurred on the nuptial night.

The disease is associated with the symptoms incident to a disordered nervous system and sometimes results fatally, in other cases, it terminates in melancholy and mania.

When the disease terminates fatally, there is delirium followed by stupor.

My desire is to restore them to the blessings of law and liberty, equally enjoyed by every British subject, which they have fatally and desperately exchanged for all the calamities of war, and the arbitrary tyranny of their chiefs.