virulent
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Is virulent a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figurative) Extremely hostile or malicious; intensely acrimonious.Examples: "The politicians were virulent in their hatred of the president."; "More venemous and much more virulent / Then any poyſoned tode, or any ſerpent."; "It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face."figuratively
2. (medicine) Of a disease or disease-causing agent: malignant, able to cause damage to the host.Antonyms: benign, nonvirulent
3. (microbiology) Of a pathogen: replicating within its host cell, then immediately causing it to undergo lysis.
Definition source: Wiktionary