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  • 11fatal — fa·tal adj 1: causing failure of a legal claim or cause of action a fatal defect in the proceedings W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel 2: making something (as a contract) invalid or unenforceable there is a fatal indefiniteness with the result that… …

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  • 12deadly — dead·ly adj dead·li·er, est: likely to cause or capable of causing death; also: dangerous (2) ◇ Deadly and dangerous are sometimes used interchangeably, esp. in connection with weapons or instruments. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam… …

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  • 13insalubrious — I adjective baleful, baneful, calamitous, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, fraught with danger, gravis, harmful, hazardous, hurtful, injurious, insalubris, lethal, lethiferous, malefic,… …

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  • 14lethal — 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,… …

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  • 15Bearing and Carrying — The following table is a relatively complete listing of words relating to the bearing, exuding, carrying, emitting, or containing of things by other things. Note that almost all of them end in ferous or gerous (from the Latin ferre and gerere,… …

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  • 16mortal — I. a. 1. Subject to death, destined to die. 2. Deadly, fatal, destructive, mortiferous. 3. Vital, admitting death. 4. Final, death bringing. 5. Human, of man. 6. (Colloq.) Extreme, immoderate, excessive, violent, vexing, tormenting …

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  • 17baleful — adj harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful, afflictive; destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous; detrimental, pernicious, dangerous, hazardous, deleterious; pestilential, pestiferous, noxious, malicious, malign, malignant, menacing; malevolent …

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  • 18deadly — adj 1. fatal, mortal, lethal, mortiferous, deathful, Archaic. lethiferous; pernicious, dangerous, hazardous, deleterious, detrimental; harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful, nocent, baleful, noisome; destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous;… …

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  • 19fatal — adj 1. deadly, lethal, mortal, mortiferous, deathful, Archaic. lethiferous; venomous, virulent, toxic, morbific; fell, baneful, mephitic, viperous, poisonous, Archaic. venenose. 2. destructive, ruinous, annihilative, calamitous, disastrous,… …

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  • 20lethal — adj deadly, fatal, mortal, mortiferous, deathful, .4rc/iazc. lethiferous; killing, suicidal, slaughtering, slaughterous, murderous, death dealing, internecine, internecive; destructive, ruinous, annihilative, calamitous, disastrous; pernicious,… …

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