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FATALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fatally mean?
• FATALLY (adverb)
The adverb FATALLY has 1 sense:
1. with fatal consequences or implications
Familiarity information: FATALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With fatal consequences or implications
Context example:
he was fatally ill equipped for the climb
Pertainym:
fatal (having momentous consequences; of decisive importance)
Context examples
A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father fatally injured?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No organ was fatally injured.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I know, continued the unhappy victim, how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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