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deathliness

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death⋅ly

  [deth-lee]
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–adjective
1. causing death; deadly; fatal.
2. like death: a deathly silence.
3. of, pertaining to, or indicating death; morbid: a deathly odor from the sepulcher.
–adverb
4. in the manner of death.
5. very; utterly: deathly afraid.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME dethlich, OE dēathlīc. See death, -ly

Related forms:
death⋅li⋅ness, noun
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