fatally
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/ˈfeɪtəli/
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/ˈfeɪtəli/ · [ˈfeɪ̯ɾl̩i]
Definition of fatally
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adv
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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
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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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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.”
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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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