Dangerous
Dangerous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Painful and dangerous are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Painful" instead an adjective "Dangerous".
Nearby Words: danger, dangerously
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Two are killed immediately and resurrected in painful or dangerous forms, eventually leading them to suicide, and one is nearly drawn into an alternate dimension.
Source: I Love Nuclear Power -
It's not helped by how Shasta and Aravis didn't have anything similar to scissors and had to use a scimitar, which made the process actually quite dangerous and painful.
Source: Traumatic Haircut -
This Is Gonna Suck: Tory's reaction whenever he gets volunteered for a potentially painful or dangerous test.
Source: Series / MythBusters
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