🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

घातक रूप से

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ghatak roop se

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Murderously/ˈmɜːr.dɚ.əs.li/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"उसने अपने प्रतिद्वंद्वी को घातक रूप से घूरा।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adverb
  1. 1

    In a manner that suggests or constitutes intent to kill; with murderous hostility.

    "He glared at his rival murderously across the crowded room."
  2. 2

    Extremely, intensely, or to a degree that causes severe pain or exhaustion (informal/figurative).

    "The heat was murderously oppressive during the mid-afternoon march."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective 'murderous', combining the Old English root 'morthor' (meaning murder, killing) with the Germanic suffix '-ous', and the adverbial suffix '-ly'. The term evolved during the late Middle English period to describe actions, intents, or conditions characterized by or amounting to murder.

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