FATAL, FATALLY
ADJECTIVES
► BALE actively evil, deadly, dire, pernicious, destructive, fatal, cruel, tormenting → a1000 obs.
► CAPITAL fatal → a1626 obs.
► DEAD-DOING ‘doing to death’; causing death; killing, murderous; destructive, fatal, mortal → 1590 obs.
► DEATHFUL full of death; fraught with death; mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly → a1240
► DEATHLIKE deadly, fatal, mortal → 1548 obs.
► EXITIOUS destructive to life, deadly, fatal, ruinous, hurtful, dangerous → 1563 obs.
► FUNEST causing death or evil; fatal., disastrous; dreadful → 1636
► FUNESTOUS causing death or evil; fatal, disastrous; dreadful → 1641 obs.
► LETHIFERAL causing death, fatal → 1848 obs.
► MURDERSOME capable of killing; deadly, fatal → 1585
► PERNICIOUS having the quality of destroying; tending to destroy, kill, or injure; destructive, ruinous; fatal → 1521
► TACHYTHANATOUS killing quickly, rapidly fatal or lethal → 1860
ADVERBS
► CAPITALLY fatally, seriously → 1606
► DEADLILY in a deadly manner; mortally, fatally; excessively → 1621
► DEADLY in a way that causes death; mortally, fatally, to death → c1050 obs.
NOUNS
► BIG CASINO anything terminal or fatal, esp. a disease, as cancer; also syphilis → 1930s US sl.
► BOWRAD a fatal encounter → Bk1911 Sc.
► DEATH TRIP any situation considered potentially fatal or extremely life-threatening → 1960s sl.
► FATALS fatal persons or things → 1560 obs.
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