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# mortally

«mortally» in Mova's school dictionary: **sure to follow: «mortally wounded»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mortally means so badly that death is sure to follow: «mortally wounded». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortally/#m1)

2) (informal) «Mortally afraid» means extremely frightened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortally/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and battle stories a hero or beast is hurt so badly that it will die; the phrase «mortally afraid» shows great fear

### examples

- Mortally wounded with several thrusts, he sank down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortally/#x1)
- The boatmen took a sure aim and mortally wounded her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortally/#x2)
- The poor old woman was mortally afraid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortally/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; it describes how badly someone is hurt, not an amount.

### In the corpora

- [And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.726/)
- [And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good: life for life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.727/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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