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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Investigators didn’t elaborate on what occurred during the encounter before one of the officers fired his gun, mortally wounding the man.
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Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Maxwell was still fighting the unnamed robber, so Powell ran into the front room shot him again in the chest, mortally wounding him, the feds allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
His company commander mortally wounded, David, from Girard, Ohio, handed his radio to his platoon sergeant and started fighting.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
On May 7, 1970, David exited his platoon's defense perimeter and repeatedly drew attention toward himself after an initial enemy assault that mortally wounded his platoon leader and several other service members, according to the Army.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025
Maxwell was still fighting the unnamed robber, so Powell ran into the front room shot him again in the chest, mortally wounding him, the feds allege.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
His company commander mortally wounded, David, from Girard, Ohio, handed his radio to his platoon sergeant and started fighting.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
On May 7, 1970, David exited his platoon's defense perimeter and repeatedly drew attention toward himself after an initial enemy assault that mortally wounded his platoon leader and several other service members, according to the Army.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Mortally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mortally. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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