Lethal and Violent

Lethal

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

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

Nearby Word: lethality

Violent

Violent adjective - Marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity.

Lethal and violent are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lethal" instead an adjective "Violent".

Nearby Words: violence, violently, violator

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Riddick His only apparent way off is to activate a beacon that will draw mercenaries to him like vultures to a corpse.One ship brings a more lethal and violent type of mercenary, while the other brings a man whose hunt for Riddick is more personal than claiming a bounty.
  • Comic Book / Grant Morrison's Batman Never Found the Body: Flamingo is still out there... Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jason's violent and lethal methods of crime fighting causes the crime lord El Penitente to send up Flamingo, a nigh-unstoppable assassin who is known to eat human faces.
  • Drop the Hammer He then brutally deconstructs the non-violent, non-lethal connotations of this trope by brutally deconstructing evil alternate versions of Takanuva.
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