perishingly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adv

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"The party was short of water and rationed, and such water as they first found was salty, so that they got perishingly thirsty."
"There were low groans of pain as the field plunged into the perishingly cold water."

* from perishing + -ly

more perishingly (comparative) most perishingly (superlative)

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