Deadlier

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deadlier
       See {deadly}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deadly


       adj 1: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a
              deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
              [syn: {deathly}, {mortal}]
       2: of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal
          weapon"; "a lethal injection" [syn: {lethal}]
       3: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous
          snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: {venomous}, {virulent}]
       4: involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the
          seven deadly sins" [syn: {mortal(a)}]
       5: exceedingly harmful [syn: {baneful}, {pernicious}, {pestilent}]
       6: (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
       adv 1: as if dead [syn: {lifelessly}]
       2: as if produced by death; "deadly pale"; "a deadly paralytic
          stroke"
       3: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love";
          "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever";
          "insanely jealous" [syn: {madly}, {insanely}, {deucedly},
          {devilishly}]
       [also: {deadliest}, {deadlier}]