à la mort

[a la mawr]French.

adjective

mortally ill.
melancholy; dispirited.

adverb

grievously; fatally.

Origin of à la mort

literally, to the death

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Alamort, a-la-mort′, adj. half-dead: in a depressed condition: dejected.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
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