deadly
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2.8
- adjective
- /ˈdɛdli/
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- It was one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history.
- deadly tornado
- deadly disease
- deadly weapon
So the flu is more deadly for two children than COVID is.
- So the flu is more deadly for two children than COVID is.
- Or you can do gene therapy to try to eliminate deadly disease in people.
- And some of the variants might be deadlier or more transmissible.
- It's not as infectious as it's deadly cousin smallpox or even COVID.
- It's well, polio was deadlier for kids, but it's not now.
- OK, so that's, that's the that's why he used deadly physical force to stop him.
- Hey guys, what was the deadliest battle of World War One?
- This next one I call deadly driving.
- So December is the deadliest month for heart attack victims.
- If if this thing was really as deadly as we first thought.
- You've heard his voice on shows like Deadliest Catch and Shark Week.
Examples
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The deadly virus spread rapidly, causing alarm among health officials.
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But the process of mining the gold has had deadly consequences.
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Travel by car is many times more deadly per mile than commercial air travel.
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Is nuclear power a way to produce electricity or a path toward building deadly weapons?
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So the flu is more deadly for two children than COVID is.
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Several patients with rapidly advancing and deadly forms of cancer were cancer-free a few months later.
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Its venom is a deadly mixture of chemicals that can kill a human in three minutes.
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Life for these fierce, pint-size predators is a deadly serious game of risk and reward.
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Diarrhea may not seem deadly to Westerners who have access to improved sanitation.
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But they couldn't be immediately inspected because the building was contaminated with deadly rodent-borne hantavirus.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
380
4.0
Containing poison that can cause harm or death
193
4.8
Able to cause death, for example by a weapon or poison
90
2.8
Containing a substance that can make you sick and can cause death if eaten, touched, or breathed
66
4.3
Dangerous enough to cause death
3
6.8
Able to cause death or serious harm
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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8.1
A very serious wrong action in Christian belief that leads to spiritual death unless you ask for forgiveness
How Deadly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deadly comes from dead 'not alive' plus the ending -ly, which here means 'causing' or 'full of'. So deadly literally means 'full of death' and describes something that can cause death.