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perishingly en · ADV

Etymology

* from perishing + -ly

Meanings

1. (colloquial) extremely
   • The party was short of water and rationed, and such water as they first found was salty, so that they got perishingly thirsty. 1926, Charles Francis Saunders, Trees and shrubs of California gardens:
   • There were low groans of pain as the field plunged into the perishingly cold water. 2009 January 5, Matthew Weaver, “Our man in the ... Annual mud race in Essex”, in The Guardian:

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