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terminally /ˈtəːmɪn(ə)li /adverb1In a way that is predicted to lead to death; incurably: terminally ill patients terminally diseased trees...- She has recently returned home to care for her terminally ill mother.
- When she learns her young son is terminally ill, she attempts reconciliation with her own estranged father.
- He has an interview with the terminally ailing Queen in Kensington Palace Gardens, and all looks hopeful.
1.1 informal In an extreme manner that is beyond cure or alteration: Arsenal’s loss has terminally damaged their title bid terminally bored employees...- Almost all of the guests are terminally self-obsessed.
- The album's focus blurs, but not terminally so.
- 'Untidy' results were ignored or suppressed and as a result, scientific thinking itself was rendered terminally short-sighted.
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