mortal
/ˈmɔɹ.təl/ adjective B2- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- Punishable by death.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle. · mortal enemy
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal. · mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome. · a sermon lasting two mortal hours
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The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.
A SNAKE, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager’s infant son.
They fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat.
The Serpent, turning about, bit the Crow with a mortal wound.
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