Grave and Lethal

Grave

Grave adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.
Usage example: going over Niagara Falls poses a grave danger

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

Nearby Words: gravely, gravel, graved, graver, graveled

Lethal

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

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

Nearby Word: lethality

Both words in one sentence

  • Grave Marking Scene Martin Riggs is shown visiting his deceased wife's grave periodically throughout the Lethal Weapon series.
  • In a non-lethal example, in the final face-off in 8 Mile, Papa Doc makes the grave, and just plain stupid mistake of letting B.
  • Gentle Giant The Laputan robots from Castle in the Sky can be extremely dangerous (They can shoot lethal laser from their eyes), but care for innocent birds' nests and put flowers on an ancient grave.
    Source: Gentle Giant
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