English words for 'More than usually lethal'
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noun
- The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
- the quality of being deadly
- The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
adj
- Causing death; lethal.
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
adv
noun
name
adj
- Deadly, fatal.
- Of or pertaining to the dead, funereal.
- (furry fandom, not comparable) That is a feral character.
- Wild; untamed.
- (Internet slang) Behaving in an out-of-control way due to enthrallment with a certain thought, behavior, person, etc.
- Of a person, contemptible; unruly; misbehaved.
- Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.
- wild and menacing
noun
- (Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
- Misspelling of ferrule.
- (Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
- A domesticated (non-human) animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
- (furry fandom) A furry character in art or literature which has the appearance of a regular animal (typically quadrupedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or "anthros".
adj
adv
noun
verb
verb
- kill in large numbers
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
verb
- kill in large numbers
- be successful; achieve a goal
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- (transitive) To achieve (something); to succeed at (something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
- (transitive) To transport away.
- (transitive) To win (a prize, etc.).
- (transitive) To steal or kidnap
- (transitive) To cause the death of.
verb
- kill in large numbers
- kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).
- (computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)
verb
- kill in large numbers
- terminate, end, or take out
- eliminate from the body
- remove from a contest or race
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- get rid of something
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
verb
- kill in large numbers
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- put an end to; kill
- terminate, end, or take out
- extinguish by crushing
- To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To die out.
- (psychology) To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
- (figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
- (figurative) To kill (someone).
- (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- (figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
- (figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
verb
- kill in large numbers
- use up (resources or materials)
- eliminate completely and without a trace
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- wipe out the effect of something
- remove from memory or existence
- (transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
- (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear.
- (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
- (transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out.
- (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
- (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
- (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board.
noun
noun
- a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
- growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
- (countable) The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
- (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- (uncountable) In particular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
noun
adj
verb
- To kill.
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
noun
noun
- The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
- A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.
- (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.
- (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).
adj
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
adv
noun
adv
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
- send away towards a designated goal
- complete or carry out
- kill without delay
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
noun
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- the act of sending off something
- an official report (usually sent in haste)
- killing a person or animal
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
noun
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
adj
pron
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
- To botch or mangle.
- (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
- (figuratively, colloquial, British) To devour, ravish.
- (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
- To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
noun
- unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
- (nonstandard) a murderer
- (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
- (countable) The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
- (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.
- (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
- (uncountable) The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
verb
adj
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
adv
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
noun
- degree of figurative distance or separation
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of removing something.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- be excellent or outstanding
- to succeed greatly
- (transitive, by extension, hyperbolic, informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
- (transitive, slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
- (transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder.
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (transitive, literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
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noun
adv
noun
verb
adj
verb
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
- (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.
- (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
noun
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- a building where animals are butchered
- the business of a butcher
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
- (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
- (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.
- The butchering of meat.
- A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
- A meat market.
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
- (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- Death and destruction.
- (figurative, slang) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
- (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
verb
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
- (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
- (transitive, figuratively) To perform (a work, such as a musical piece or a play) very poorly.
- (transitive, proscribed) To kill with great force or brutality.
- (transitive, figuratively) To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- the killing of animals (as for food)
- a sound defeat
- (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- (rare) A mass destruction of non-living things.
- A rout or decisive defeat.
verb
verb
noun
- (algebra, somewhat humorous) An associated prime of a module.
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- (historical, usually capitalized) A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- Any ruthless killer.
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
noun
adj
verb
verb
- kill with poison
- kill by its poison
- administer poison to
- spoil as if by poison
- add poison to
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
noun
- anything that harms or destroys
- any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
noun
- The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
- the quality of being deadly
- The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
noun
name
noun
- a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
- growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
- (countable) The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
- (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
- (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
- (uncountable) In particular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
noun
adj
noun
- The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
- A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.
- (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.
- (statistics, probability) A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).
noun
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- a building where animals are butchered
- the business of a butcher
- The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
- (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
- (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.
- The butchering of meat.
- A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
- A meat market.
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- (figurative, sports) Any great loss by a team; a game in which one team wins overwhelmingly.
- (figurative, slang) Any chaotic situation.
- The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
- Death and destruction.
- (figurative, slang) A heavy drinking binge and its aftermath.
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
- (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
verb
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
- (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
- (transitive, figuratively) To perform (a work, such as a musical piece or a play) very poorly.
- (transitive, proscribed) To kill with great force or brutality.
- (transitive, figuratively) To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- the killing of animals (as for food)
- a sound defeat
- (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- (rare) A mass destruction of non-living things.
- A rout or decisive defeat.
verb
noun
adj
verb
verb
- kill in large numbers
- To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
- (transitive) To render null and void; to abrogate.
- (mathematics) To cause to become zero by means of an annihilator operator
- (particle physics) To react with antimatter, producing gamma radiation and (for higher-mass reactants, especially composite particles such as protons) lighter particles (such as pions, muons, and neutrinos).
verb
- kill in large numbers
- be successful; achieve a goal
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- (transitive) To achieve (something); to succeed at (something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To act convincingly; to succeed at giving the impression of (e.g.) knowledge, confidence, or familiarity.
- (transitive) To transport away.
- (transitive) To win (a prize, etc.).
- (transitive) To steal or kidnap
- (transitive) To cause the death of.
verb
- kill in large numbers
- kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
- (proscribed) To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of (something).
- (loosely) To devastate: to reduce or destroy significantly but not completely.
- To destroy or remove one-tenth of (something).
- (computer graphics) To replace (a high-resolution model) with another of lower but acceptable quality. (Usually algorithmically)
verb
- kill in large numbers
- terminate, end, or take out
- eliminate from the body
- remove from a contest or race
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- get rid of something
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
verb
- kill in large numbers
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- put an end to; kill
- terminate, end, or take out
- extinguish by crushing
- To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To die out.
- (psychology) To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
- (figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
- (figurative) To kill (someone).
- (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- (figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
- (figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
verb
- kill in large numbers
- use up (resources or materials)
- eliminate completely and without a trace
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- wipe out the effect of something
- remove from memory or existence
- (transitive, informal) To bankrupt (a person or company); to empty (a bank account); to erase (a bank balance).
- (transitive) To do away with; to cause to disappear.
- (transitive) To destroy (especially, a large number or complete set of people or things); to obliterate.
- (transitive, informal) To exhaust (someone); to tire (them) out.
- (intransitive) To crash; to fall over or fall off (especially in board sports such as surfing, skateboarding, etc.).
- (transitive) To physically erase (writing, computer data, etc.).
- (surfing, transitive) To knock (a surfer) off their board.
noun
verb
- To kill.
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
noun
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
- send away towards a designated goal
- complete or carry out
- kill without delay
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
noun
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- the act of sending off something
- an official report (usually sent in haste)
- killing a person or animal
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
noun
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
adj
pron
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
- To botch or mangle.
- (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
- (figuratively, colloquial, British) To devour, ravish.
- (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.
- To illegally kill (a person or persons) with intent, especially with predetermination
noun
- unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
- (nonstandard) a murderer
- (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
- (countable) The act of killing a person (or sometimes another being) unlawfully, especially with predetermination
- (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The act of committing or abetting a crime that results in the killing of a person, regardless of intent, and even if the committer or abettor is not the one who killed the person: felony murder.
- (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
- (uncountable) The crime of killing a person unlawfully, especially with predetermination.
verb
adj
- below a satisfactory level
- (of events) no longer planned or scheduled
- not performing or scheduled for duties
- not in operation or operational
- in an unpalatable state
- (by extension, Australia, slang) Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Temporarily not attending a usual place, such as work or school, especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (predicative only) Inappropriate; untoward.
- Not correct; not properly formed; not logical, harmonious, etc.
- (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- (chiefly UK) Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- (predicative only) Presently unavailable. (of a dish on a menu)
- (predicative only) Inoperative, disabled.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- (poker slang) Offsuit.
- (predicative only) Cancelled; not happening.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
- Started on the way.
- (in phrases such as 'well off', 'poorly off', 'comfortably off', etc., and in 'how?' questions) Circumstanced.
- (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Far; off to the side.
adv
- at a distance in space or time
- from a particular thing or place or position (‘forth’ is obsolete)
- no longer on or in contact or attached
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- (theater) Offstage.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
noun
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- (colloquial, more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.
- Outside the area or region of.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Temporarily not attending (a usual place), especially owing to illness or holiday.
- (slang, drugs) Under the influence of.
- (informal) As a result of.
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
noun
- degree of figurative distance or separation
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of removing something.
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
verb
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- be excellent or outstanding
- to succeed greatly
- (transitive, by extension, hyperbolic, informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
- (transitive, slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
- (transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder.
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (transitive, literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
intj
noun
verb
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
- (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.
- (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
verb
noun
- (algebra, somewhat humorous) An associated prime of a module.
- Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
- (historical, usually capitalized) A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
- Any ruthless killer.
- a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed
- a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders
verb
- kill with poison
- kill by its poison
- administer poison to
- spoil as if by poison
- add poison to
- (chemistry) To inhibit the catalytic activity of.
- (transitive, computing) To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to hate or to have unfair negative opinions.
- (transitive) To pollute; to cause to become poisonous.
- (transitive) To cause to become much worse.
- (transitive) To use poison to kill or paralyse (somebody).
noun
- anything that harms or destroys
- any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism
- (figuratively) Anything harmful to a person or thing.
- A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.
- (chemistry) Any substance that inhibits catalytic activity.
- (informal, idiomatic) An alcoholic drink. (Mainly in the phrases "name your poison" and "what's your poison?")
adv
adv
noun
verb
adj
adj
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
adv
noun
adj
- Causing death; lethal.
- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
adv
adj
- Deadly, fatal.
- Of or pertaining to the dead, funereal.
- (furry fandom, not comparable) That is a feral character.
- Wild; untamed.
- (Internet slang) Behaving in an out-of-control way due to enthrallment with a certain thought, behavior, person, etc.
- Of a person, contemptible; unruly; misbehaved.
- Of an animal, wild but descended from domestic or captive ancestors; thus, in the wild, although not necessarily of the wild type.
- wild and menacing
noun
- (Australia, colloquial) A contemptible young person, a lout, a person who behaves wildly.
- Misspelling of ferrule.
- (Australia, colloquial) A person who has isolated themselves from the outside world; one living an alternative lifestyle.
- A domesticated (non-human) animal that has returned to the wild; an animal, particularly a domesticated animal, living independently of humans.
- (furry fandom) A furry character in art or literature which has the appearance of a regular animal (typically quadrupedal), that may or may not be able to communicate with humans or "anthros".
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- unrelenting and deadly
- Of or relating to the time of death.
- Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
- Punishable by death.
- Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly; related to a life-and-death struggle.
- Human; belonging or pertaining to people who are mortal.
- (Scotland, Geordie, slang) Very drunk.
- Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
- Fatally vulnerable.
- (religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death (the destruction of charity in the soul) and thus, a disruption of one's relationship with God.
- causing or capable of causing death
- subject to death
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death