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

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  1. a. Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.
  2. a. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile; flagitious; as, deadly enemies.
  3. a. Subject to death; mortal.
  4. adv. In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death.
  5. adv. In a manner to occasion death; mortally.
  6. adv. In an implacable manner; destructively.
  7. adv. Extremely.
  8. adj. causing or capable of causing death
  9. adj. of an instrument of certain death
  10. adj. extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
  11. adj. involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
  12. adj. exceedingly harmful