Fatal and Vicious

Fatal

Fatal adjective - Bringing about ruin or misfortune.

Vicious and fatal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vicious" instead an adjective "Fatal".

Vicious

Vicious adjective - Extreme in degree, power, or effect.

Fatal and vicious are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fatal" instead an adjective "Vicious".

Nearby Word: viciously

Both words in one sentence

  • A couple of canine examples of this trope; George, a Jack Russell in New Zealand who was killed defending five kids from a pair of vicious pit bulls; and Chief, a pit bull in the Philippines who sustained a fatal bite protecting two women from a cobra.
  • It's non-fatal, and it doesn't inflict permanent damage (possibly due to Eren's healing factor), but it continues for a long time, and is vicious enough to shock everyone watching it out of their various states of panic, and get Levi's proposition their full attention.
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