lethal

Collocations

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(adj.)

VERBS

be, prove

ADV

absolutely

That cleaning product is absolutely lethal if you swallow it by mistake.

pretty

potentially

Combining alcohol with certain medications can be potentially lethal.

PREP

to

High doses of this medicine can be lethal to people with heart problems.

Definitions

adj

1

Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

noun

1

Any weapon that causes death.

2

An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.

noun

1

One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — of an instrument of certain death

deadly

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are

Wiktionary

02

Improper grounding can make a microphone lethal to touch. Several singers have actually died this way.

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03

The court condemned the man to death by lethal injection.

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04

Apparently ice is lethal!

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05

Smoking may be lethal.

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06

Tom is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight.

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