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Another word for deleterious

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Adjective

  1. Causing harm or injury

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Another word for deleterious

Modifier
  1. See also:

    pernicious

    pernicious

    harmful

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Sentence Examples

  • A few crops, such as mustard, seem deleterious to them.

  • The effects of morphine are much more deleterious than those of opiumsmoking.

  • The vessels are only temporary channels by which is brought forward the food supply that is needed by the advancing army if it is suc-, cessfully to carry on its function; they probably also drain off the deleterious fluid substances formed by the cellular disintegration that has taken place in the part.

  • The deleterious influence of high bloodpressure has engaged the attention of physicians and pathologists in later years, and the conclusion arrived at is, that although it may arise from accidental causes, such as malcomposition of the blood, yet that in many instances it is a hereditary or family defect, and is bound up with the tendency to gout and cirrhotic degeneration of the kidney.

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