mortal
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Definitions ofmortal
- A human; someone susceptible to death.
Example: "Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal."
- 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.
Example: "mortal enemy"
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
Example: "mortal wit or knowledge; mortal power"
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
Example: "a sermon lasting two mortal hours"
- Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
- Of a sin: involving the penalty of spiritual death, rather than merely venial.
- Mortally; enough to cause death.
Example: "It's mortal cold out there."
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