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Deathly   /dˈɛθli/   Listen
Deathly

adjective
1.
Having the physical appearance of death.  Synonym: deathlike.
2.
Causing or capable of causing death.  Synonyms: deadly, mortal.  "A deadly enemy" , "Mortal combat" , "A mortal illness"
adverb
1.
To a degree resembling death.





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"Deathly" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed. No sound broke the deathly stillness of the place; and then, cautiously creeping through the grass, the officer and Morris crawled round to where the latter had seen the man fall. They came upon him suddenly. He was lying partly on ...
— "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams - 1901 • Louis Becke
... Ingmar was deathly pale, and every one who looked at him could see that he was suffering keenly; therefore, no one ventured to speak to him. He stood so quietly that many had not even noticed that he was there. But those who had could think ...
— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof
... His deathly paleness convinced the Pawnees that their captive was at death's door. They urged him to walk, but he could not, and they stayed in camp longer than was intended, in the hope that ...
— Footprints in the Forest • Edward Sylvester Ellis
... Indian had brought two stakes and thrown them on the mud at the leader's feet. Margaret looked at the rough-trimmed saplings, at the tide-mark far up the dreadful slope, then again into her lover's face. She understood; but she gave no sign, save that her skin blanched to a more deathly pallor, and she exclaimed in a voice of poignant regret: "Have we kept silence all these long hours only for this? And I had so much to say ...
— Earth's Enigmas - A Volume of Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... upon the fire, drew up a chair and sat to dry my clothes and warm my shivering limbs, and presently, what with my weariness and the fire's comfort, began to nod. Opening unwilling eyes, I found George beside me, holding a steaming glass to my lips, and now felt myself deathly cold and shivering in ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol


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