terminally

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Adverb

terminally

1. In a terminal manner.
2. Leading to death; lasting until death.

   terminally ill

   • 2009, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, It's Not Me, It's You: Subjective Recollections from a Terminally Optimistic, Chronically Sarcastic, and Occasionally Inebriated Woman ↗.
3. (military, of missile guidance) To the target.

   terminally guided

4. (location) At the end.
   • 1919, Robert Ridgway, Herbert Friedmann, The Birds of North and Middle America, Part 8, Issue 1919, page 276 ↗,

     […] some of the feathers (especially posterior scapulars) with the broad edgings more rufescent and passing into whitish terminally ;

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