Injurious and Lethal

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Injurious adjective - Causing or capable of causing harm.

Usage example: inaccurate news reports are injurious to the public's faith in the media

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Lethal and injurious are semantically related in poisonous topic. In some cases you can use "Lethal" instead an adjective "Injurious".

Nearby Words: injure, injury, injuriously

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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Injurious and lethal are semantically related in poisonous topic. Sometimes you can use "Injurious" instead an adjective "Lethal".

Nearby Word: lethality

Thunderstorms severe enough to spawn tornadoes can also contain other lethal and injurious hazards, specifically lightning, large hail, and enough rain to cause flash floods.

Source: Television Is Trying to Kill Us
The G-forces that would subject normal people to should range from injurious to lethal.

Source: Series / The Flash (2014)
Batman is surrounded on the street by four members of the Penguin's Red Triangle Circus Gang: three males in clown makeup and wielding lethal or at least heavily injurious weapons, plus the Poodle Lady, a woman with only "normal" glamour makeup and not carrying any weapon at all.

Source: The Last of These Is Not Like the Others

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