mortally
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Definition of mortally
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Synonyms & Antonyms for mortally
Synonyms
achingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, corking, cracking, damn, damned, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, monstrous [chiefly dialect], most, much, particularly, passing, rattling, real, really, right, roaring, roaringly, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, stinking, such, super, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, unco, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly
Antonyms
little, negligibly, nominally, slightly, somewhat
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Officers responding to person calling for help found the victim mortally wounded, suffering from multiple stab wounds, in the 300 block of East 53rd Street shortly before 8 a.m., police said. — Rosemary Sobol, chicagotribune.com, "Woman slashed to death in Washington Park neighborhood, man held," 29 Aug. 2019 Byrne, mortally wounded, was also armed and shot back. — Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, "Driver charged in traffic dispute and shooting that ‘shattered’ arm of motorcyclist," 28 Aug. 2019 Dane’s uncle, Nathan Garrett, became the infamous supervillain Black Knight before he was mortally wounded in a battle with Iron Man, leading to an existential change of heart. — Alejandra Salazar, refinery29.com, "Kit Harington Will Wield A Different Kind Of Sword For Marvel’s The Eternals," 24 Aug. 2019 All three of those presidents survived their primary challenges but were mortally wounded for the general election. — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, "History suggests Trump will be tough to beat in 2020," 13 July 2019 In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. — BostonGlobe.com, "This day in history," 11 July 2019 And just before midnight in Fort Lauderdale, a 32-year-old man was mortally wounded while setting off fireworks for his family in the 1600 block of Northwest 13th Street, according to the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office. — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, "Two men dead, teen injured in separate fireworks explosions," 5 July 2019 In its third year, the fellowship was created in honor of Bolles, a Republic investigative reporter who was mortally wounded in a car explosion more than 40 years ago. — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, "Isaac Windes receives 2019 Don Bolles fellowship for project on natural disasters," 2 July 2019 Flores returned that evening and the dispute flared up again, leading to a fight that left Martinez mortally wounded. — Pauline Repard, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Man pleads guilty in fight that killed day-laborer in Lemon Grove," 28 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mortally.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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