deathly
/ˈdɛθli/ adverb C2- In a way that resembles death. · He was deathly pale.
- Extremely, dreadfully. · The water was deathly cold.· He was deathly afraid of crocodiles.
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At this almost brutal speech Morrel turned deathly pale.
Far away a chiming clock struck out the quarters of the hours, but otherwise a deathly silence lay upon the old house.
The flush had faded in an instant, and a deathly face was before me.
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