lethal
About 3.94 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
- noun Any weapon that causes death.
- noun An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
- noun One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid.
Similar words
deadly fatal mortal life-threatening destructive dead devastating murderous homicidal killer
Often followed by
dose to injection weapons weapon and doses effects effect
Word family
lethalities lethality lethally lethals
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