deadliness
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dead·ly
(dĕd′lē)adj. dead·li·er, dead·li·est
1. Causing or tending to cause death: deadly weapons; a deadly spill of radioactive waste products. See Synonyms at fatal.
2. Suggestive of death: a deadly pallor.
3. Aiming or wanting to kill; implacable: deadly enemies.
4.
a. Destructive in effect: gave the film a deadly review.
b. Tending to take away vitality, effectiveness, or force: the deadly habit of procrastination.
5. Absolute; utter: deadly concentration.
6. Extreme or terrible: worked under deadly strain.
7. Extremely accurate; unerring: She is a deadly shot with the bow.
8. Dull, tedious, and boring: a deadly prose style.
adv.
1. So as to suggest death.
2. To an extreme: deadly serious.
dead′li·ness n.
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| Noun | 1. | deadliness - the quality of being deadly fatality - the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
deadliness
n (of poison, weapon) → tödliche Wirkung; (of wit, sarcasm) → vernichtende Wirkung; (inf, = boringness) → tödliche Langeweile; (= awfulness) → Entsetzlichkeit f
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