Grievous and Lethal

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Grievous adjective - Involving potential loss or injury.

Usage example: a grievous wound that requires a doctor's immediate attention

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

Nearby Words: grieve, grieved, grieving, grievously

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

Nearby Word: lethality

Grievous Harm with a Body: In the remake, severed moff legs can inflict damage as they're flying off, often lethal to stippels.

Source: Videogame / Clonk
This is one of the few times it makes sense; although grievous, none of the arrow wounds were instantly (or near-instantly) lethal, such as directly into the heart or skewering a major vessel to bleed out quickly.

Source: Inverse Dialogue Death Rule
General Grievous's backstory is given in the Star Wars Legends book Labyrinth of Evil: To put him in debt to the Confederacy and make him even more dangerous, Count Dooku staged a non-lethal shuttle crash, then offered to rebuild him as a cyborg in exchange for his service.

Source: Make It Look Like an Accident

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