mortally
adverb
mor·tal·ly
ˈmȯr-tᵊl-ē 
1
: in a deadly or fatal manner : to death
mortally wounded
2
: to an extreme degree : intensely
mortally afraid
Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of mortally in a Sentence
I'm mortally certain that I've seen that guy before.
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But Chmerkovskiy's assertion that Sheen was once mortally threatened by a fan, and that he was subsequently rescued by the DWTS-pro wife of his ex-wife's former DWTS partner is a revelation.
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
The dollar has been mortally wounded by a collapse in trust of American institutions.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Christine Banfield was discovered mortally wounded after being stabbed in her Herndon, Va., home on February 23, 2023.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
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—Todd Feathers, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
The dollar has been mortally wounded by a collapse in trust of American institutions.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Christine Banfield was discovered mortally wounded after being stabbed in her Herndon, Va., home on February 23, 2023.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
But Thompson’s 20-month-old grandson, Tyree Halsell, who was still sitting in the car, was shot in the head and mortally wounded.
—Todd Feathers, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Mortally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mortally. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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