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# deathly

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

«deathly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Deathly means like death, cold and still. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/#m2)

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

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «deathly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deathly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«deathly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/deathly.html) on Mova free.