Fell and Lethal

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Fell adjective - Likely to cause or capable of causing death.

Usage example: planning in the event that the enemy resorted to biological warfare and released some fell virus on the civilian population

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Lethal and fell are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lethal" instead an adjective "Fell".

Nearby Words: felled, fella, felling

Lethal adjective - Likely to cause or capable of causing death.

Usage example: we were lucky that the snake's venom wasn't lethal, and our friend turned out to be all right

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Fell and lethal are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fell" instead an adjective "Lethal".

Nearby Word: lethality

Another non-lethal parody in Ernest Scared Stupid when Ernest fell in the garbage truck and his dog activated the compactor.

Source: The Walls Are Closing In
General Thiébault had an impressive but non-lethal fall after a visit to Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr: his spurs got caught in each other and he fell down the stairs and right into a glass door.

Source: Staircase Tumble
In First Blood (but not in the original novel), Rambo largely refrained from using lethal force-even Gault only died when he fell from the helicopter.

Source: Technical Pacifist

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