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DEADLY

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Irregular inflected forms: deadlier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, deadliest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (adjective) 

Comparative and superlative

Comparative: deadlier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Superlative: deadliest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effectplay

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

virulent (infectious; having the ability to cause disease)

Derivation:

deadliness (the quality of being deadly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Causing or capable of causing deathplay

Example:

a mortal illness

Synonyms:

deadly; deathly; mortal

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

fatal (bringing death)

Derivation:

deadliness (the quality of being deadly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of an instrument of certain deathplay

Example:

a lethal injection

Synonyms:

deadly; lethal

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

fatal (bringing death)

Derivation:

deadliness (the quality of being deadly)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Exceedingly harmfulplay

Synonyms:

baneful; deadly; pernicious; pestilent

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

noxious (injurious to physical or mental health)

Derivation:

deadliness (the quality of being deadly)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual deathplay

Example:

the seven deadly sins

Synonyms:

deadly; mortal

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

unpardonable (not admitting of pardon)

Domain category:

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

Derivation:

deadliness (the quality of being deadly)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venomplay

Example:

a virulent insect bite

Synonyms:

deadly; venomous; virulent

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

toxic (of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison)

Derivation:

deadliness (the quality of being deadly)

 II. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used as intensives) extremelyplay

Example:

insanely jealous

Synonyms:

deadly; deucedly; devilishly; insanely; madly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain usage:

intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

As if deadplay

Synonyms:

deadly; lifelessly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

dead (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Bacterial meningitis is rare, but can be deadly.

(Meningitis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

However, these approaches can leave the body vulnerable to deadly infections.

(Approach targets autoimmunity, NIH)

Experiments in the study revealed that after just one exposure to the chytrid fungus, frogs learned to avoid the deadly pathogen.

(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)

Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers, fueled by highly flammable eucalyptus trees.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For most living things, arsenic is a deadly poison, but new research shows that microorganisms are breathing arsenic in a large area of the Pacific Ocean.

(Arsenic-breathing microbes discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean, National Science Foundation)

In a paper published in 2015, researchers proposed that cyanide, although a deadly poison, was in fact a key ingredient in the primordial soup from which all life on Earth originated.

(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)

It is also believed that the early moon had a magnetosphere - a magnetic field which would have deflected the sun's deadly electromagnetic radiation - similar to Earth's.

(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers have developed a blood test that could help with the early detection of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease.

(New Test May Detect Pancreatic Cancer Early, VOA News)

In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a landslide of flowing mud, multiplying the death toll and economic impact.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare but deadly viral infection.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)




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