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What does mortally mean?

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Adverb
  1. Fatally; in such a way as to cause death. [from 14th c.]
  2. (obsolete) As a mortal. [16th-17th c.]
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Before he reached the quarter-deck ladder he was told Captain Cooke had been mortally wounded.
Hamilton, mortally wounded, was rowed to Greenwich Village, where he died the following day.
As they do now, people avoided public spaces, knowing that dumb luck could put you in the mortally wrong place at the wrong moment.
In recoil, one of the mortally wounded soldiers pulled the trigger of his gun, causing a single bullet to strike his attacker.
Another child was mortally wounded and two other teachers and several more children were badly injured.
All of the court ladies that hadn't fainted were clinging to their partners, mortally afraid for their lives.

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