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mor·tal
(môr′tl)adj.
1.
a. Liable or subject to death; not immortal: mortal beings.
b. Of or relating to humans as being subject to death: "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" (Shakespeare).
2.
a. Causing death; fatal: a mortal wound. See Synonyms at fatal.
b. Fought to the death: mortal combat.
c. Relentlessly hostile; implacable: a mortal enemy.
3.
a. Of great intensity or severity; dire: mortal terror.
b. Conceivable; imaginable: no mortal reason for us to go.
c. Used as an intensive: a mortal fool.
n.
A human.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mortālis, from mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]
mor′tal·ly adv.
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Adv. | 1. | mortally - in such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.); "a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle" |
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Translations
بِصورَةٍ مُميتَه
smrtelně
dødeligt
lífshættulega
öldürecek şekilde
mortally
[ˈmɔːtəlɪ] ADV1. (= fatally) to be mortally wounded → estar herido de muerte, estar mortalmente herido
2. (= extremely) mortally afraid → muerto de miedo
he was mortally embarrassed → estaba terriblemente avergonzado, estaba cortadísimo
mortally offended → profundamente ofendido
he was mortally embarrassed → estaba terriblemente avergonzado, estaba cortadísimo
mortally offended → profundamente ofendido
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
mortally
adv
(fig: = extremely) shocked etc → zu Tode; wounded → zutiefst; offended → tödlich; I was mortally afraid → ich habe Todesängste ausgestanden; she is mortally embarrassed → es ist ihr höchst peinlich
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mortal
(ˈmoːtl) adjective1. liable to die; unable to live for ever. Man is mortal.
2. of or causing death. a mortal illness; mortal enemies (= enemies willing to fight each other till death); mortal combat.
noun a human being. All mortals must die sometime.
morˈtality (-ˈtӕ-) noun1. the state of being mortal.
2. (also mortality rate) the number of deaths in proportion to the population; the death rate. infant mortality.
ˈmortally adverb in such a way as to cause death. He has been mortally wounded.
mortal sin (especially in Roman Catholicism) a very serious sin, as a result of which the soul is damned for ever.
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