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US
/ˈmɔɹtəɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈɔːtəl/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːtəl/ ]
NOUN
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a human being
there was too much for one person to do
ADJECTIVE
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unrelenting and deadly
mortal enemy -
subject to death
mortal beings -
involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
the seven deadly sins -
causing or capable of causing death
mortal combat
a fatal accident
a mortal illness
a deadly enemy
How To Use mortal In A Sentence
- Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
- The fall in popularity of the death's head and the subsequent prevalence of the cherub was a reflection of the Great Awakening and the belief in the immortality of the soul: "Cherubs reflect a stress on resurrection, while death's heads emphasize the mortality of man. Headstones for Dummies, the New York Edition
- At the least, that first conclusion seems to me unproven by his own arguments in favor of mortality.
- He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won. The Sun
- For some, the inexorable march of years and the pathos of mortality bring an inward, deep resentment. Christianity Today
- The magic of the elves is a twilight thing, the sound of distant silver horns, a fairy gold that turns to dust by noonday, and it is meant to chide the pride of foolish mortal men. MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
- The closely-packed _mitraille_ tore the icy crust into powder, fifty yards beyond the doomed bird, which settled, throbbing with a mortal tremor, upon the ice, shot through the head. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
- ‘Irony’ in its original form is the will of the fates or gods played out through the lives of mortals.
- Several events of fulminating epidemic disease broke out since 1999, which often caused 100% mortality of abalone Haliotis drversicotor aquatilis farmed in Fujian and Guangdong coasts.
- The results of two recent studies have demonstrated an association between postneonatal mortality and particulate air pollution.