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# deathly

«deathly» in Mova's school dictionary: **like death, cold and still** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (deathlier, deathliest); adverb (deathly pale)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Deathly means like death, cold and still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/#m1)

2) «Deathly pale» means very white and ill-looking, as if dying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a chill or a silence is described as deathly, cold, still and frightening

### examples

- A deathly chill ran down his back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/#x1)
- The island was in deathly silence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/#x2)
- She went deathly pale when she saw the ghost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deathly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.