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mortally

 adverb
     
mor‧tal‧ly
1 in a way that will cause death [= fatally]:
He regarded the mortally wounded man with no pity in his heart.
2 extremely or greatly:
He was mortally afraid of upsetting her.
I tried to be tactful, but he seemed to be mortally offended.
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