perishingly

English

Etymology

• from perishing +‎ -ly

Adverb

perishingly (comparative more perishingly, superlative most perishingly)

1. (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^[1]:

     There were low groans of pain as the field plunged into the perishingly cold water.