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Meaning of deadly

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  deadly
      adv 1: as if dead [syn: {deadly}, {lifelessly}]
      2: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love";
         "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely
         jealous" [syn: {madly}, {insanely}, {deadly}, {deucedly},
         {devilishly}]
      adj 1: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident";
             "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
             [syn: {deadly}, {deathly}, {mortal}]
      2: of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal
         weapon"; "a lethal injection" [syn: {deadly}, {lethal}]
      3: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous
         snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: {deadly}, {venomous},
         {virulent}]
      4: involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven
         deadly sins" [syn: {deadly}, {mortal(a)}]
      5: exceedingly harmful [syn: {baneful}, {deadly}, {pernicious},
         {pestilent}]
      6: (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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