lethal

lethal
01. The victim died from a [lethal] blow to the head.
02. Marilyn Monroe died after taking a [lethal] dose of sleeping pills.
03. He is a karate expert, and his hands are [lethal] weapons.
04. The police were obliged to use [lethal] force to stop the man from killing his children.
05. The chemicals being poured into the water by the factories are [lethal] to fish living in the river.
06. The prisoner was executed by [lethal] injection at 10:00 this morning.
07. The junkie died after injecting himself with a [lethal] dose of high-grade heroin.
08. [Lethal] fumes released from a Union Carbide plant resulted in thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India.
09. Shanahan and Yzerman have proved to be a [lethal] combination for the Detroit team.
10. Ebola is one of the most [lethal] viruses known to medical science.
11. When a person drives while drunk, his car may be turned into a [lethal] weapon.
12. Chocolate can be [lethal] to dogs; as little as two ounces of milk chocolate can be poisonous for a 10-pound puppy.
13. A car is a potentially [lethal] weapon in the hands of a dangerous driver.
14. Adolf Hitler's favorite dog, Blondi, an Alsatian, was used to make sure his cyanide capsules were [lethal]. Hitler used the cyanide to commit suicide only after he saw it worked on Blondi.
15. Someone once said that the only [lethal] dose of marijuana is a 2-kilo block dropped on your head from the 25th floor of a high-rise building.
16. An accident at an industrial plant in the city saw [lethal] poisons released into the atmosphere, killing a dozen people, and sending almost a hundred to hospital.
17. In the 1930s, the Nazis began murdering physically and mentally disabled people by gas, [lethal] injection and forced starvation.
18. Certain viruses have become more [lethal] in the past few years, and are even affecting people who are normally very healthy.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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  • Lethal — is something that is capable of causing death to a living being. For example, a Lethal injection.It may also refer to:*A Lethal gene, a gene which produces an organism which dies before reproducing *Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer… …   Wikipedia

  • Lethal — Le thal (l[=e] thal), a. [L. lethalis, letalis, fr. lethum, letum, death: cf. F. l[ e]thal.] Deadly; mortal; fatal. The lethal blow. W. Richardson. {Le thal*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lethal — I adjective annihilative, baleful, baneful, dangerous, deadly, death bringing, death dealing, deathly, destructive, evil, exitialis, fatal, fell, feral, funestus, harmful, hurtful, injurious, internecine, internecive, killing, lethiferous,… …   Law dictionary

  • Lethal — Leth al (l[e^]th [a^]l), n. [Lauric + ether + alcohol.] (Chem.) 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 ethereal salt of lauric acid. [1913 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lethal — (adj.) 1580s, from L.L. lethalis, alteration of L. letalis deadly, fatal, from letum death, of uncertain origin. Form altered in L.L. by association with lethe hydor water of oblivion in Hades in Greek mythology, from Gk. lethe forgetfulness …   Etymology dictionary

  • lethal — *deadly, fatal, mortal Analogous words: destroying or destructive (see corresponding verb at DESTROY): killing, slaying (see KILL): *pernicious, baneful, noxious: *poisonous, virulent, venomous, toxic Contrasted words: salutary, wholesome,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • lethal — [adj] deadly baleful, dangerous, deathly, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, mortuary, murderous, necrotic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, virulent; concept 537 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

  • lethal — ► ADJECTIVE 1) sufficient to cause death. 2) very harmful or destructive. DERIVATIVES lethality noun lethally adverb. ORIGIN Latin lethalis, from letum death …   English terms dictionary

  • lethal — [lē′thəl] adj. [L letalis, lethalis < letum, death: see LET1] causing or capable of causing death; fatal or deadly SYN. FATAL lethality [lē′thal′i tē] n. lethally adv …   English World dictionary

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