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virulent
/ˈvɪɹ(j)ələnt/
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What does virulent mean?
adjective
- Of animals, plants, or substances: extremely venomous or poisonous.
- (figuratively) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.
- Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.
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adjective
- Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
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/ˈvɪɹ(j)ələnt/
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These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence.
In this way the system is periodically saturated with the most virulent poisons on earth, until the undertaker finishes the job.