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