Definition of Deadly

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Deadly

Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.

Subject to death; mortal.

In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.

In a manner to occasion death; mortally.

In an implacable manner; destructively.

Extremely.

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Deadly Quotations

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
Barack Obama

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Ambrose Bierce

Deadly Translations

deadly in Dutch is moorddadig, dodelijk
deadly in Latin is mactabilis, letalis, letifer
deadly in Portuguese is mortal

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