This has been found to be the most effective and the quickest way of putting out of its agony a mortally wounded deer.
We should be mortally wounding perhaps the finest guardian of our country's reputation in the world.
But the two nations are mortally afraid of each other; each thinks it is going to be attacked.
The latter fired, and both officers were mortally wounded.
Three police were severely wounded, one feared mortally.
We may not suffer mortally by leaving it.
Sometimes elephants are mortally wounded but not yet dead.
We have had public reports of a mortally ill little girl being unable to gain treatment in a paediatric intensive care unit.
