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Deadly

Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

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Fatal 84% connected

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

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Fatal 84% connected

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

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Noxious 84% connected

Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting t…

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Noxious 84% connected

Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting t…

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Toxic 84% connected

Alt. of Toxical

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Toxic 84% connected

Alt. of Toxical

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Virulent 84% connected

Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.

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Virulent 84% connected

Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.

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Deadliness 74% connected

The quality of being deadly.

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Deadliness 74% connected

The quality of being deadly.

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Pertains to 1

Dead 66% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Baneful 92% connected

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Deathly 92% connected

Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Insanely 92% connected

Without reason; madly; foolishly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lethal 92% connected

One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the et…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Madly 92% connected

In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mortal 92% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pernicious 92% connected

Quick; swift (to burn).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pestilent 92% connected

Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Venomous 92% connected

Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Virulent 92% connected

Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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