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ˈli θəllethal

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deadly, lethaladjective

    of an instrument of certain death

    "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"

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  1. lethal

    Lethal refers to anything that is capable of causing death or fatal harm. This term can be used to describe substances, weapons, diseases, or conditions, among other things, denoting their potential to end life or cause serious damage.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lethalnoun

    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

  2. Lethaladjective

    deadly; mortal; fatal

  3. Etymology: [Lauric + ether + alcohol.]

Wikidata

  1. Lethal

    Lethal is an American heavy metal band from Erlanger, Kentucky, formed in 1982, by brothers Eric Cook and Glen Cook.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Lethal

    lē′thal, adj. death-dealing: deadly: mortal.—n. Lethe (Shak.), death.—adj. Lethif′erous, carrying death. [L. lethalislethum, letum, death.]

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lethal in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lethal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of lethal in a Sentence

  1. Jan Morgan:

    We are dealing in lethal firearms.

  2. Fox News:

    If these activists spent even a fraction of this time and effort at the border, perhaps some accountability would be brought to the Biden administration’s reckless border policies that entice illegal immigrants to make dangerous and often lethal journeys through Central America and put their lives in the hands of cartels and ‘coyotes,’.

  3. Steven Quay:

    These gene jockeys have put in a furin site into a virus that didn't have one in the laboratory, eleven out of 11 times it makes it more effective, more transmissible, more lethal -- all the bad things you'd want. So if you want to juice up a virus and make it more infective or make it go from bats to humans, putting in a furin cleavage site is a great idea.

  4. Jameel Jaffer:

    The release of the Presidential Policy Guidance is long overdue, and we are gratified that the administration has agreed with us that much of it should finally be made public, we hope that the administration's decision to release this critical document reflects a broader commitment to make the lethal drone program more transparent. In that spirit, the administration should also release the legal memos that are the foundation for the program, basic information about those killed in past drone strikes, and detailed investigative files relating to strikes that killed bystanders.

  5. William Li:

    One of the great mysteries of COVID-19 has been why blood clots, or thromboses, form in some patients, these clots can become lethal because they severely compromise blood flow not only in the lungs, but also in other organs such as the brain and heart, among other tissues. Our research is the first to show that these clots are associated with damaged blood vessels.

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