Definition of fatally in English:
fatally
adverb ˈfeɪt(ə)liˈfeɪdəli
1With death as a result.
21,000 soldiers died or were fatally wounded
Example sentencesExamples
- The artwork presents a series of large silk veils suspended from the ceiling, which are imprinted with images of mothers whose children were fatally shot.
- Your child has been fatally injured.
- They hear firing ahead of them and he is wounded fatally.
- Eurydice picks flowers for her wedding garland and is fatally bitten by the snake.
- The two fought and Paris was fatally wounded.
- Edgar fatally wounds his brother, leaving Edmund to confess to all of his crimes.
- This arrow pierces Menelaus' clothing but does not wound him fatally, even though the blood comes gushing out.
- In the closet scene, Hamlet mistook her father for the king, and he fatally stabbed him.
- Both families continue to travel west together until they are separated when his wife becomes fatally ill, which forces them to stay behind.
- Upon his return, he is stunned to find Emily fatally wounded by an unknown assailant.
- 1.1 In a way that leads to failure or disaster.
the whole concept is fatally flawed
the revelation fatally undermined the prosecution's case
as submodifier Katharine's sister is fatally attractive to men
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- Director and writer are reprimanded for story decisions that slowed the pacing and tempo of the film fatally.
- His position had been fatally weakened, and he too had to go.
- A couple of these essays are fatally infected by the logorrhoea that afflicts so much current architectural theory.
- His reputation had been fatally damaged.
- For me at least, a potentially distinguished performance was fatally undermined.
- These periodic sojourns backward in time fatally dilute the picture's narrative power.
- Accidentally provoking a murderous rage had always been a fatally easy thing to do.
- None of these visual coups comes off with much theatrical energy, and the stage action is often fatally inert.
- Like its main character, the film is fatally flawed.
- The piece is magnificent in many ways but is fatally let-down by an undistinguished organ sound that even I can better with an electronic keyboard.