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How to pronounce lethal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deadly
Derivation lethality


lethal weapon.
a lethal injection.

Examples of lethal

lethal
The oil price spike created a lethal mix of inflation and slow growth worldwide.
From the businessweek.com
For some unknown reason, the fungus is not lethal to Japanese giant salamanders.
From the edition.cnn.com
The most lethal form of malaria is caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
From the sciencedaily.com
Actually, three lethal doses in a disturbing 37-7 loss at the Edward Jones Dome.
From the stltoday.com
All but one of the 35 states that employ lethal injection use sodium thiopental.
From the time.com
Their power play is lethal, and the Sedin twins have 23 points each in 17 games.
From the suntimes.com
The fury that has lurked and flickered behind his eyes bursts with lethal force.
From the time.com
They've combined with veteran Andy Pettitte to form a lethal three-man rotation.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Ucar had a lethal dose of Vicodin in his system before he was shot in the chest.
From the signonsandiego.com
More examples
  • Deadly: of an instrument of certain death; "deadly poisons"; "lethal weapon"; "a lethal injection"
  • One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid; deadly; mortal; fatal
  • A recessive lethal allele kills its bearer when homozygous, whereas a dominant lethal allele kills when present in a single copy.
  • Involving a stimulus or effect causing death directly.
  • Products with this label are capable of causing death.
  • An abnormality of genetic origin causing the death of the organism possessing it.
  • Lines are kept over the balancers. In these lines all the flies are either over the CyO or CyO balancer depending on the insertion chromosome. In these stocks homozygous flies (no balancer) survive rarely.
  • An allele which cause early death of the organism, generally before reproduction.
  • Causing death by direct action.