Usually means: Causing or resembling death; fatal.
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  1. deathly: Merriam-Webster
  2. deathly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deathly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deathly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deathly: Vocabulary.com
  6. deathly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deathly: Wiktionary
  8. deathly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deathly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deathly: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Deathly, deathly: Dictionary.com
  12. deathly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Deathly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Deathly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deathly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deathly: Rhymezone
  17. Deathly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deathly: FreeDictionary.org
  19. deathly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. deathly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Deathly, deathly: Wordnik
  22. deathly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. deathly: Legal dictionary

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  1. deathly: Encyclopedia

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  1. deathly: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.
adjective:  Deadly, fatal, causing death.
adjective:  Extreme.
adverb:  In a way that resembles death.
adverb:  Extremely, dreadfully.

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