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Another word for deadly

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deadly

modif.

Causing death
fatal, lethal, murderous, mortal, deathly, poisonous, toxic, homicidal, bloody, noxious, destructive, venomous, deleterious, baleful, malignant, terminal, virulent, injurious, pestilential, pestiferous, death-dealing, carcinogenic, suicidal, bloodthirsty, cannibalistic, life-threatening, killing, baneful, pernicious, harmful, violent, inevitable; see also dangerous 2, destructive 2.
Antonyms healthful*, reviving, beneficial.
Very tiresome
boring, tedious, tiresome; see dull 4.

deadly is applied to a thing that can and probably (but not inevitably) will cause death a deadly poison; fatal implies the inevitability or actual occurrence of death or disaster a fatal disease, a fatal mistake; mortal implies that death has occurred or is about to occur and is applied to the immediate cause of death he has received a mortal blow; lethal is applied to that which in its nature or purpose is a cause of death a lethal weapon, a lethal dose

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Another word for deadly

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Causing or tending to cause death:
deathly, fatal, lethal, mortal, vital. See live
Gruesomely suggestive of ghosts or death:
cadaverous, deathlike, deathly, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, spectral. See live
Extremely destructive or harmful:
baneful, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, virulent. See help

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A rifle cracked, piercing the silence with deadly import.
Why so seeming fast, but deadly slow?
The old Christian eschatology is set aside; no one has dealt such deadly blows to Chiliasm and Christian apocalypticism as Origen.
1045-1052) Nasir visited Mecca four times, and performed all the rites and observances of a zealous pilgrim; but he was far more attracted by Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and the residence of the Fatimite sultan Mostansir billah, the great champion of the Shia, and the spiritual as well as political head of the house of `Ali, which was just then waging a deadly war against the 'Abbaside caliph of Bagdad, and the great defender of the Sunnite creed, Toghrul Beg the Seljuk.
He got his satchel from the buggy and, opening it, took out two deadly looking revolvers that made the children shrink back in alarm just to look at.

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