fatally

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/ˈfeɪtəli/
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/ˈfeɪtəli/ · [ˈfeɪ̯ɾl̩i]

Definition of fatally

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a deadly manner; lethally.
    “Witness our too much memorable shame When Cressy battle fatally was struck, And all our princes captiv'd by the hand Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;”
    “He told Peace that he did not believe his statement that he had fired the pistol merely to frighten the constable; had not Robinson guarded his head with his arm he would have been wounded fatally, and Peace condemned to death.”
    “A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.”
    “One of the Louisville detectives who fatally shot Breonna Taylor during a botched raid is appealing his termination this week.”
    “White, too, was found dead—fatally shot—at the scene.”
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adv

  1. In a deadly manner; lethally.
    “Witness our too much memorable shame When Cressy battle fatally was struck, And all our princes captiv'd by the hand Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;”
    “He told Peace that he did not believe his statement that he had fired the pistol merely to frighten the constable; had not Robinson guarded his head with his arm he would have been wounded fatally, and Peace condemned to death.”
    “A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.”
    “One of the Louisville detectives who fatally shot Breonna Taylor during a botched raid is appealing his termination this week.”
    “White, too, was found dead—fatally shot—at the scene.”
  2. Ultimately, with finality or irrevocability, moving towards the demise of something.
    “"They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas;" but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
    “Chelsea will point to that victory margin as confirmation of their superiority - but Spurs will complain their hopes of turning the game around were damaged fatally by Atkinson's decision.”
  3. Fatedly; according to the dictates of fate or doom.
    “He was a slender young man in hot black clothes; he wore the unfaçaded collar fatally and unanimously adopted by all adam's-apple men of morals; he was washed, fair, flat-skulled, clean-minded, and industrious; and the only noise of any kind he ever made in the world was on Sunday.”

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Etymology

From fatal + -ly.

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